Jun Li was a little surprised to see Lin Jiayan let Ma Xu go like this. He couldn't help but frown and asked, "That's it? You don't want to ask anything else?"

"It's meaningless, Jun Li, you see he's timid and cowardly, and panics when things happen. There's no point asking him questions like that, and we've already asked everything we should ask."

Lin Jiayan straightened his belt and said solemnly, "Let's sort out the clues now. We already know that Li Gui kills people through dreams. First, let A dream about the method of killing, and then slowly guide A to dream about the complete killing process and method. B dreams of being killed after A."

"Um... so what?"

Lin Jiayan chuckled and shook his head: "Jun Li... Can't you follow my train of thought? Bai Ze doesn't look stupid, how did he fall in love with you?"

Jun Li: …

"So we know that A must have dreamed first and then B dreamed. After A killed B, the next dreamer C appeared. C then dreamed of the murder method and process and then killed A. Then the original murderer A dreamed that he was killed by C. Finally, A was really killed by C, forming a cycle."

Jun Li suddenly had an idea: "That is to say, we just need to keep focusing on the murderer A, who is Ma Xu! Then we can indirectly find the next dreamer C!"

"That's right. According to what Ma Xu said, it is certain that killing in a dream takes time, so the murderer C will definitely start to dream about A frequently in the next few days. Do you think C will take the initiative to complain to the murdered B, Ji Jie, like A, Ma Xu, did at the beginning?"

Lin Jiayan stroked his chin and smiled: "In this case, as long as we can find this pattern, we can control the situation...but..."

"But we have only found the killing pattern and don't know how to break it."

Jun Li followed Lin Jiayan's train of thought and continued, "I have a few ideas but... I always feel like something is missing."

"Tell me about it."

"I have several ideas about how to break the impasse. First, stop Li Gui from using rules to kill people, that is, stop him from using dreams to kill people. Second..."

"The second method... uh... is a little unreliable... which is to prevent the murderer C or the victim A from sleeping. As long as they don't sleep, Li Gui will not have the conditions to kill and will not be able to kill."

"The third one..."

Jun Li didn't speak immediately but frowned slightly, then suddenly spoke up when he thought of something: "Jia Yan, do you remember that we saw a sapling that no one claimed!"

"Yeah... I know what you mean."

Lin Jiayan nodded and said naturally: "You suspect that someone in this class became Li Gui after being victimized, so you started to retaliate against the people in the class, and the unclaimed sapling belonged to Li Gui who was victimized."

"Yes."

Jun Li said in a deep voice: "Why don't we try to find where the sapling is? There are students' names hanging on each tree. If we find the tree, we can know who Li Gui is, and we can also follow the clues to find out what happened in this class!"

Lin Jiayan nodded to confirm Jun Li's words: "Except that the second method is really unreliable, the other methods can be tried."

"But I have a new idea about the murder method. We just said that A dreamed of killing B, and then B dreamed of being killed by A. But first of all, we took turns to wait there last night and didn't hear any movement at all. And from the video recording that A just provided, it seems that he did not leave the tent."

"You said... we didn't hear any sound when B was hurt... is it possible..."

Lin Jiayan suddenly narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "When he was victimized, combined with his sudden disappearance... B was dragged into the dream created by A and killed by Li Gui..."

"So he disappeared silently, and we didn't hear any movement in reality, because B was not in the real world we were in at all, but was dragged into A's dream world by Li Gui!"

Jun Li was silent for a moment. Just as he was about to agree with Lin Jiayan's words, he felt that something was wrong. He suddenly shook his head and hesitated for a moment: "What you said makes sense, but... if Lin Jiayan said that B was dragged into A's dream world and was killed and buried alive... then it stands to reason that we in the real world will only realize that B is missing."

Jun Li took a look at the excavated corpse of Ji Jie and spoke slowly: "Then we in the real world shouldn't have dug out B who was buried alive in the dream world, right? After all, B was buried in another world, so why would the corpse appear in the real world?"

"Tsk..."

Lin Jiayan's forehead suddenly became covered with sweat. He hadn't spoken for a long time and it seemed that his thoughts were stuck for a moment.

Seeing Lin Jiayan's expression, Jun Li comforted him, "It's okay. Let's follow our previous idea. We will follow Ma Xu through these clues and then find the next murderer C. We will also look for the extra sapling."

"We have been able to deduce so many things just because one person died. This is just the beginning. There is no need to rush."

Lin Jiayan was silent for a moment and suddenly glanced at Jun Li: "Jun Li...what do you mean by just one dead person..."

Jun Li was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have been gradually affected by the various bizarre incidents that happened continuously...

"Jun Li, since when did we start to not take human life seriously..."

Lin Jiayan put his hands in his pockets and sighed slightly, "We seem to...begin to become numb to all the weird incidents...everything is just to end the incident as soon as possible so as not to affect our lives..."

"As for the victims, those ordinary people... we don't seem to take their lives seriously..."

"In a sense, they became our guinea pigs for trial and error. We just made inferences and used their lives to verify whether our conjectures and inferences were correct."

Lin Jiayan raised his eyes and looked at Jun Li: "Just like you said just now, this is just the beginning, and only one person has died... The implication is that there are still so many people who have not been killed, and there are still so many opportunities for us to try and verify our inferences..."

"Jun Li...we...will we really not lose our humanity in one incident after another?"

Jun Li was speechless. Lin Jiayan's words suddenly made him break out in a cold sweat. That's right... since when did he stop planning to save people... and only wanted to end the incident so that he could leave...

When did he start to be indifferent to the lives of others? He only thought that it didn't matter if he had no ideas, because if more people died, there would be more clues.

Lin Jiayan sighed and forced a smile: "Don't think about it... Let's go... There are still too many things that have not been resolved..."

"We just do what we can. Instead of thinking about how to keep others alive... we should think about how to keep ourselves alive first..."

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