not in love

"Help—! Help me, don't kill me, don't kill me!"

Xu Ruqing, who was so frightened by the power outage, ignored Song Tiqing, who was closest to him, without thinking about face, and sneaked behind him recklessly.

The darkness will magnify fear and pressure, and the guests immediately became a mess, relying on instinct to scramble and scramble amidst Xu Ruqing's screams, until a beam of light illuminated the surroundings impressively.

It was Lin Xie who took the tablet with him before leaving the living room. The bright light from the screen was especially precious in the darkness at the moment.

"Xu Ruqing! Stop squeezing me!"

Song Tiqing pushed Xu Ruqing to the corner,

"It's just turning off the lights, what are you yelling about?"

"But the corpse...the corpse is gone, haven't you seen it? Isn't this evil?!"

Xu Ruqing squatted in the corner with her eyes closed and her ears covered,

"Is there anyone else on this island?!"

"Now I am willing to believe that Mi Chen is not dead,"

The female singer wiped off the cold sweat from her forehead, frowned and analyzed,

"She may be an NPC arranged by the program team. Whether it's the forced lights-off tonight or her sudden disappearance, it's all to create a terrifying atmosphere... The more scared we are, the more the audience will love to watch it, right?"

"It's really a script killing? And it's a horror book..."

Lu Youyou was still in shock, and her body was still shaking until now. The sudden turn off of the lights just now and Xu Ruqing's screams made her dizzy, and her ears kept buzzing.

"Then what do you mean by urging us to sleep now? It's only less than eight o'clock, who can sleep now?"

"Is the staff coming to set up the scene and give us clues? They said they want us to investigate the murderer, but they don't give any clues, so we can't proceed at all."

The speculation that "Mi Chen is not dead" made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. At least the bizarre events they have encountered so far can be explained by the horror atmosphere deliberately created by the program group.

"That makes sense, then let's go back to the room as the radio said?"

The female singer looked at Yu Zhijuan and Lin Xie, as if asking for their opinions.

"According to the requirements of the program group,"

Yu Zhijuan nodded,

"It seems that we can only get new clues if we work together."

He just said this to comfort others. He knew that Mi Chen was dead, and he also knew that there were no ghosts and gods in this world. The disappearance of the body could only show that the murderer had been hiding by their side from the beginning to the end.

"Song Tiqing, you haven't used your shopping authority today?"

Lu Youyou looked at the glowing tablet in Lin Xie's hand, and suddenly remembered that only Song Tiqing successfully obtained the shopping qualification today,

"Don't you need it?"

"Need not,"

Song Tiqing shook his head resolutely,

"I have nothing to buy."

He's actually afraid of opening the door, what if someone pretends to be a delivery robot and breaks into his room and wants to do something to him?

"Then let's go back to our rooms first."

The singer suggested,

"We can only wait until tomorrow morning to see if there is any progress... We'd better pay attention to our speech skills when we have a video call with that man tomorrow, and try our best to clarify the rules of this murderer game without angering him." OK."

In the end, the seven people reached an agreement, and brought the light source together to send the people who lived far away back to the room first, and finally left Lu Youyou, Yu Zhijuan and Lin Xie with adjacent room numbers.

Lu Youyou was sent to the door by the two of them, holding the door open, she seemed a bit afraid to go in alone.

"How about leaving the computer to you? It's also good to use it as a flashlight."

Yu Zhijuan generously handed the tablet to her.

"No, no need, I actually bought a flashlight a few days ago,"

Lu Youyou shook her head,

"Thank you for taking care of me, we...see you tomorrow morning!"

The door creaked and was gently closed. Standing in the silent corridor, the sound of Lu Youyou locking the door and moving heavy objects to block the door could be clearly heard.

"Mr. Yu, shall we say good night?"

Lin Xie asked in a low voice.

In fact, he was the most laborious person today. In the hide-and-seek game in the afternoon, Yu Zhijuan took the opportunity to search around, and he had to keep an eye on Yu Zhijuan's movements while pretending to be playing the game, lest he be caught by others. Sneak attack.

"Do you want to go to the bathroom together before going to bed?"

Yu Zhijuan paused, reached out and lit the cigarette case in Lin Xie's trousers pocket,

"By the way, borrow a fire."

"it is good."

Lin Xie smiled, and put the tablet lock screen in his hand on the decorative cabinet placed against the wall in the corridor.

There is no camera in the toilet, but there is no guarantee that the computer does not have a bugging function.

The public restroom of the old villa is luxuriously decorated. The first thing you see when you enter the door is not a convenient compartment, but a circular washstand carved with eight-sided landscape paintings. The top is connected with a glass ceiling to filter in the light. At the same time, a cluster of verdant white water chestnut flowers was planted, and the flowing smoke flowed down the flowers and merged into the washbasin, like a mountain stream.

It's just that this gorgeous sink has been around for a long time. In addition to the rust spots scattered everywhere, the sewer pipes are also leaking due to old age, causing the floor in the entire bathroom to be constantly wet.

Lin Xie was led into the bathroom by Yu Zhijuan. Compared with the invisible corridor, the bathroom is much brighter because of the hollow glass design on the ceiling.

"Do you think the murderer will do it tonight?"

Lin Xie was the first to ask.

Yu Zhijuan pushed open the baffles of the toilet compartment one by one, and confirmed that there were only the two of them in the bathroom at the moment.

"Won't,"

Yu Zhijuan shook his head,

"I can probably guess what he's thinking. He wants to compete with me now, to see if I find him first, or if he succeeds in misleading others to regard me as the murderer first... Lin Xie, do you think the murderer is between us? ?”

Yu Zhijuan spent a whole game exploring around this afternoon, and Lin Xie was not idle, and Yu Zhijuan found that Lin Xie was more sensitive to many details than he was.

"……exist."

After thinking for a moment, Lin Xie quietly came to a conclusion.

The murderer took advantage of the hide-and-seek time in the afternoon to remove Mi Chen's body, and Song Tiqing had been hiding near the pier. During this period, no one went to or from the island, which meant that the murderer had always been on the island and had been eating and living with them all the time. someone.

This is also in line with Yu Zhijuan's initial psychological profile of the murderer - confident, bold, and playful.

It was so hard to turn Wynn Island into a game field where they could do whatever they wanted. The murderer couldn't resist not participating in the game himself. As for the man in the black hat who announced the rules of the game and threatened them instead of Cui Zhumei, he was probably just a puppet. .

Since the murderer has the ability to collect black material from all of them and package a reality show, it is not difficult to send someone to appear in front of the screen instead of himself.

"I think the same as you do,"

Yu Zhijuan nodded,

"And he is very good at disguising. I have been observing all day today and I haven't found anyone who behaves unnaturally."

"...What about Xu Ruqing? Is it possible that he is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?"

"It's not him. His excitement and fickleness are the most normal state of mind in this environment. He has always suspected that I was just showing off in the morning. Now the least suspect is actually him. Then... Lu Yoyo may also be able to rule it out."

"Because she's an Omega?"

"Well, you and I both know that this is not a script at all. It is not easy to kill a Beta who is 1.7 meters tall, has abdominal muscles and has a loud voice. In addition, after checking a few places this afternoon With a bold guess, "

Yu Zhijuan blinked. In fact, as long as he is willing to say a conjecture, it means that he has a certain degree of confidence, and he will use the word "bold" to describe his thoughts, indicating that the truth may be far more appalling than their imagination. .

"The winners of previous days probably weren't sent off the island at all."

"But we checked today, there is no place to hide people on this island..."

"The scope of our inspection is limited to the places where traffic is allowed, but in fact this villa has a basement in addition to the four floors on the surface."

"basement?"

Lin Xie couldn't help frowning, he had never seen any entrance leading to the basement in this villa.

"Well, the entrance has probably been sealed off by them, so we can't see it. But do you remember the residence manual that Cui Zhumei sent us when we first had dinner on the island?"

Yu Zhijuan patiently explained,

"No one paid attention to it at the time, and I just flipped through a couple of pages, but I remember that the original design drawings of this old house were printed on them, and there was indeed a basement on the drawings."

"So you suspect they're all locked up in the basement?"

"Probably, I didn't think about it at first, but I chatted with me the day Michen bumped me into the swimming pool. She said that the toilet was leaking, and I heard the program team repairing it at night, but I went to confirm it during the day. I went through it again, and there was no sign of any repairs in any of the toilets, so what do you think she heard?"

Yu Zhijuan knocked on the wall while talking,

"Of course people locked in the basement can't use their voices to call for help. They will probably choose to knock on walls or pipes so that the sound can be transmitted to the ground."

It can also explain why the rooms of the guests emit ether in the middle of the night. The same hypnotic spray may be used by the "winners" in the basement during the day, and in order to keep them alive, they have to have a certain amount of water every day. Eating while awake, in order to prevent the guests in the villa from noticing the existence of the basement, setting the awake time in the middle of the night is the best choice.

"At that time, the 'Program Team' had already started to put ether into our room, but Mi Chen was awake and heard the noise in the toilet,"

Lin Xie suddenly raised his eyes, recalled Mi Chen's anomalies these days, and said the guess that he also felt should be described as "bold":

"Mi Chen is also one of them, but he was killed because of a disagreement with them?"

"I don't know if it was because she reminded me that day,"

Yu Zhiwen lowered his eyelashes,

"If it's because of me, even if it's just to respond to her kindness, I must personally find out the murderer."

"He can't help showing his feet."

Lin Xie imitated Yu Zhijuan's movement of holding a cigarette and took out one from the cigarette case, lightly tapped the corner of Yu Zhijuan's lips,

"Do you still want today?"

"……want."

Just as Yu Zhijuan was about to reach out to pick it up, there was a loud bang at the door, as if someone had bumped into the marble door of the bathroom.

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