Star Trace Gate

In the evening, 6 o'clock sharp.

In the hall on the second floor of the villa, the old cadre, Xiao Shuai, Hong Ge, Yin Hu, and Tan Pang, all sat on chairs with strange expressions, looking at each other.

"Sandbag asked us to all come out, but he checked every room one by one. What does this mean?!" Xiao Shuai stole a glance at the Kun room and whispered, "What the hell is he doing?"

Brother Hong also looked at Fatty Tan with suspicion: "Are you sure...he has found a way to crack the secret room?"

"Anyway, he just said 'he knew everything.'" Fat Tan shook his head helplessly and said, "I was beaten with him for a whole day. I was with him the whole time. I don't know what he knew, and I don't dare to ask."

"Why don't you dare ask?!" the old cadre asked.

"He said that if you find a way to crack the secret room, you can get three million a day for life-saving money." Fatty Tan squinted and said, "Because he figured out the method, he should be charged."

"My relationship with Shabao started from the first day. He shouldn't take any money." When Brother Hong heard Tan Pang come up with it in advance, he immediately played the emotional card.

"I won't pay him, and if he doesn't tell me, I'll fuck him." Yin Hu said simply, "After I fuck him, I won't even enter the room today. I'll just wait until 8:30 to fuck Song Mingzhe."

"......!" When Fatty Tan heard this, his expression was both astonished and admiring: "Brother Tiger is Brother Tiger, he is so fierce that it is unreasonable."

The old cadre listened to the conversation between the few people and seemed to be thinking about something.

Xiao Shuai sneered, "Oh, you guys took it seriously? He said it, and you believed it? I think he was just trying to be mysterious... He was stupid enough to attack the law enforcement team headquarters, which is enough to show his intelligence. If it weren't for everyone's help, it would be a question whether he could come back today."

After he finished speaking, Xiao Shuai stood up a little angrily and shouted, "Are you going to come out or not? I'm telling you, I don't agree with you searching my room...!"

"Hey."

The old cadre immediately raised his hand to stop him, saying, "Let him search. He and the captain made such a big noise, there must be a reason. If we can't find a way to crack the secret room today, someone will still die. This is not a joke. Don't disturb him."

"Agree!"

"+1!"

"...!"

The rest of them all voted in favor and stopped the anxious Xiao Shuai.

Time passed by minute by minute, and soon it was half past six.

At the beginning, everyone was still communicating with each other, but as half past eight got closer, their faces became very ugly and their mentality was greatly affected.

Up to now, these five people still haven't found a way to crack the secret room. The hope of the entire team is currently on Ren Ye alone. If he doesn't come up with a solution tonight, one of the six people will die...

The most important thing is, even if Ren Ye finds a way, will he tell you? If he deliberately conceals it, or guesses wrong, and others cannot confirm it, then this kind of death will continue.

What does it feel like to wait for the random draw of death?

Torment, anxiety, torture, a series of negative emotions surged in our hearts. Everyone's minds were in a mess and their thoughts were extremely complicated.

Brother Hong even thought for a moment that if Comrade Shabao insisted on asking for money, he would have to sell his magic weapon to give it to him. After all, life is more important.

"Damn it, ah... How long will it take? Can you please give me an answer?"

Xiao Shuai rubbed his cheeks with red eyes, looking extremely struggled and uncomfortable.

Yin Hu glanced at him and thought to himself, "There's definitely nothing wrong with this kid's brain, otherwise he wouldn't have acted decisively and left a favor in the chaos just now. But his ability to withstand pressure is the worst among everyone, even worse than Xiao Yuan. Hmm... How did he become the captain?"

Kun room.

"Yes, that's right, that's it." Ren Ye looked at the mottled wall, slowly raised his hand, took an item from it, and muttered in his heart: "What I have to do now is to go out and try that person."

After he finished searching the last room, he walked away.

"It's coming out, it's coming out!" Xiao Shuai shouted excitedly when he saw Ren Ye.

Everyone looked up when they heard this and looked over.

"Don't make noise, don't ask, just keep quiet." Ren Ye pressed his palms together, walked to the long table and sat in his seat.

Everyone looked at him eagerly, their eyes flickering with a sense of excitement as if they were "before the last bet".

After Ren Ye glanced at them, he turned his head to look at the old cadre and asked suddenly: "What is the magic of women?! Do you know? If you know, don't think about it, don't ask, just say it...!"

This question was so abrupt and without context that it left everyone confused.

The old cadre also looked at Ren Ye in astonishment: "Female...female supernatural powers should be related to sleeping, poisoning, and mind control. On the first day, we encountered a task where he used it!"

"How do you use it?" Ren Ye asked.

"She has a kind of poison, colorless and odorless, in a small bottle. Smelling it can make people extremely relaxed and tired... Then she also has a magic flute. When she played it, I didn't hear any sound, but her opponent fell asleep quickly. It was very strange." The old cadre stared at Ren Ye blankly: "...That's all I know."

When Ren Ye heard this answer, he felt that there was nothing wrong with it, because the tone, intonation, and reaction of the old cadre were all consistent with the performance of a person being questioned suddenly, and there was nothing wrong with it at all.

"What's the matter? Why are you asking this question?!" Fat Tan said.

"Because Brother Hong guessed correctly, on the first day, someone was using the rules of heaven to kill people." Ren Ye replied with a serious expression.

"Really?!" Brother Hong was instantly excited: "Did you find evidence?"

"Yeah." Ren nodded.

"Tell me quickly, who is using the rules to kill people?" Xiao Shuai also urged.

Ren Ye rubbed his palms together, slowly raised two fingers and said, "There are two stories about the death. One is that the player killed someone with a borrowed knife, and the other is that the murder was caused by the rules of the chamber. There is a certain connection between the two, but they are both independent. If you want to understand the logic, you must separate the two. Let me first tell you the story of killing someone with a borrowed knife...!"

"You say!" Fat Tan nodded.

The hall on the second floor suddenly became so quiet that one could hear a pin drop, and everyone's eyes were focused on Ren Ye.

He slowly glanced at the crowd, creating a very tense atmosphere, but suddenly looked at the old cadre and asked softly, "On the first day, you and the woman were clearly together, doing the same mission together! But why did she have more gold coins than you, five more than you?!"

The old cadre was stunned for a moment, and instinctively replied: "Because... because she triggered an Easter egg mission. The line we followed on the first day was her line. She had an Easter egg mission, but I didn't trigger it."

"Then do you know what reward she got?!" Ren Ye asked again.

"She told me that the gold coin reward is more." The old cadre frowned and said, "What do you want to say? Are you doubting me?"

"It's okay."

Ren also waved his hand and muttered to himself: "The woman is 35, and he is 30. There is indeed a difference in the task rewards between the two. He should not be lying, and his reaction is correct. There is nothing abnormal."

Thinking of this, he suddenly stood up and said faintly: "The first story is - a woman."

"On the first day, after everyone entered the star gate, some chose to leave alone, and some chose to explore in a group. The woman and the old cadre all had clues about Song An, so they chose to act together. During the investigation, their task completion rate was relatively high. I guess they completed at least three small tasks, each of which rewarded ten gold coins, and the player who triggered the Easter egg task received fifteen gold coins."

"Yes." The old cadre nodded and said, "We are in an investigation point and have three small tasks."

Ren Ye lowered his head and took a step forward, continuing: "The woman is quite capable. She triggered the Easter egg mission and got a relatively important reward. It has a strong direction and must be related to the secret room. I guess this reward item can either predict good or bad luck; or it is a reminder item. In short, the ultimate use of this item can be summed up in one sentence... At night, someone will die in the Kanzi room...!"

When everyone heard this, they were all stunned.

Yin Hu asked first: "Why are you so sure that the woman got such a prop reward? You even know what information the prop revealed?! What, did the woman appear in your dream?"

Ren also raised two fingers: "First, I also got such a prop on the first day. Although its function is not to predict good or bad luck or give hints, now that I think about it, its purpose is also closely related to the secret room. There is no need to tell you what it is specifically...!"

His words were alluding to the "lucky token" he received on the first day. It was a reward for giving Director Hong a human skeleton, and its function was to ward off a strange event.

Now that he thought about it, the "weirdness" mentioned in this lucky token might be referring to the murder in the closed room at night, and this was also the card in his mind that kept Ren from panicking until now.

"Since I can get such an item, others can naturally get it too, but the functions are slightly different. Secondly, the Heavenly Dao rules set up such a death mechanism, and there should be certain item prompts or assistance. After all, this star gate emphasizes individual competition." Ren Ye continued: "Secondly, some of the players present have mentioned such an item to me, which can serve as supporting evidence."

"Then what?!" Xiao Shuai continued to ask.

"I suspected at first that the woman was extremely smart and might have mastered the rules of killing in the secret room from the first day, so she used the method of hitchhiking to kill and eliminate her opponents." Ren Ye frowned and said, "But unfortunately, she died on the second day. That means she didn't know such rules, so she relied on props to know in advance that someone would die in the secret room."

"After she knew it, she had to find a way to switch rooms with someone else to avoid her own death. Because she only had predictive props, but could not resist the weirdness."

"Do you remember? On the first night, when the woman was in the final stage, she looked a little dazed and absent-minded!"

"Today during the day, when I was investigating on the first floor, I found scratches on a wall. In a hole, there was a dead rat with no external injuries. It was like an innocent person who was implicated, accidentally poisoned, and died on the way out to look for food. I can take you to see the scene later."

"Combined with the information provided by the old cadre, the woman's supernatural ability is to use poison and the flute to make people sleepy. There is no doubt about the woman's ability to commit the crime."

"Also, when I was investigating clues today, I also discovered an important piece of information. That is, the prey in the Kanzi room was asleep when it was killed by Song Mingzhe, and it couldn't be awakened no matter what!"

Ren Ye said this, slowly supported the table with both hands, bent down, and said word by word: "Women need others to take the knife for them, but why choose Xiao Yuan? Not you, not me?"

When everyone heard this, they fell silent, with expressions of careful consideration on their faces.

"It's very simple!! Xiao Yuan's reckless behavior on the first day has already caused everyone's disgust. He is the only one on the sidelines in the team. Only when he dies will no one stand up to question and support such a person!"