Fang Chen could actually feel that everyone was isolating Shi Yu, and he could also hear that others were dissatisfied with his behavior just now.

He didn't participate in many games, but compared to the newcomers, it was enough for him to develop a certain indifference to life. That's why he didn't approve of Cheng Wuye investing so much thought into the newcomers before, and now he doesn't have the courage to leave the small group for a newcomer.

But indifference is only some after all.

At an age where he has not yet experienced the college entrance examination, his biggest characteristic is that he has no abilities at all. His biggest advantage is that he has a clear awareness of his own poor abilities. His greatest strength is that he never hides his poor abilities for the sake of so-called face.

Even if he couldn't bear it, he could only cover Bai Qiu's body with a piece of cloth, say a few words of greeting to Shi Yu, and play dumb when his companions were dissatisfied. This was all he could do.

This was specifically demonstrated when, after the short and useless meeting, Fang Chen took advantage of the fact that no one else dared to run around and stayed in the mourning hall, and quietly followed Cheng Wuye to the living room.

Cheng Wuye had long hair, and the black earphone cord snaked down and extended into his pocket: "What are you doing?"

Fang Chen: "Brother Cheng, do you know something?"

Cheng Wuye's expression remained unchanged, his eyebrows slightly raised: "Who gave you this illusion?"

Fang Chen rubbed his fingertips unconsciously on the hem of his clothes: "Intuition."

Cheng Wuye tilted his head to look at him for a while, then suddenly smiled: "So? What's your purpose in coming to me? To let me tell you everything I know? To help you out when you're in danger? To let you pass the game without doing anything and just follow me around?"

Fang Chen's face flushed, but he didn't refute.

"How old are you? Are you still not weaned?" Cheng Wuye's eyes were malicious and sarcastic. "You lied down this time, are you going to lie down next time as well? You're going to lie down for the entire Lower Nine Heavens, and then go to the Upper Nine Heavens to find someone else to lead you? You can't walk without others. Did you go through the previous dungeons with your eyes closed?!"

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"I completed all the previous copies with my eyes closed." Fang Chen whispered.

"With a brain like mine that can't even get a passing score of 90 out of 150 on a math test, what else do you expect me to do?" Fang Chen sighed.

"How do you think I got through the first two levels? How else could I have done it except by sucking up to someone powerful? Do you think I, a weakling, can get through it?" Fang Chen looked sad and angry.

Shi Yu's head was buzzing because of his noise: "So what?"

Fang Chen: "Senior Brother..."

Shi Yu: "What is your purpose in coming to see me?"

Fang Chen: “…”

You know what, these words really sounded familiar. He had just been blocked by Cheng Wuye with these words.

He was not in the right in the first place. It was a favor that the kind-hearted people he met before were willing to help him. Now it is also their duty not to take him with them. He really has no right to blame anyone.

In the end, Fang Chen was unable to overcome his remaining shame and utter even a single word. His eyes drifted aimlessly in the mourning hall, and finally landed on the face under the brim of the other person's hat: "Brother, is that cup of oatmeal okay?"

"Um."

"Would you like to eat something?"

Shi Yu looked at him meaningfully.

Fang Chen felt uncomfortable being stared at by him and subconsciously looked away. After coming to his senses, he forced himself to look back.

He narrowly escaped death in the game. If it was someone else, no matter how compassionate he was, he would not do this. As for why he went to such lengths this time, it seemed that he could only attribute it to Jingyan.

He had never seen that kind of overwhelming beauty on anyone else in the past ten years.

This kind of mentality is like walking on the street and suddenly seeing a little white rabbit in a pet shop. It is white and cute, but it is lying wilted in the cage because it has no food. Just by looking at it, you can't help but feel soft-hearted and want to give it carrots and vegetables.

…The only difference is that the person in front of him obviously has nothing to do with Little White Rabbit: "Cheng Wuye doesn't accept you, so you come to me?"

Fang Chen's face froze.

After a while, his tone weakened and his voice became smaller and smaller: "I passed the first two dungeons by looking for big shots, and every time I found someone who happened to be the first in the final settlement. My intuition is pretty accurate. In fact, the person I wanted to find in this game was you, but you didn't seem to want to pay attention to me... Well, you don't want to pay attention to anyone, so..."

Silence spread.

"Did you hear the guests outside talking about Xu Zhukong and Guan Yueyue?"

Fang Chen suddenly heard his voice: "Ah, I heard it."

The guests who came and went talked about that story every day. He would not miss this kind of information. Not only did he listen to it, but he also reviewed the words in his mind after returning. Unfortunately, he could not figure out anything except that the relationship between the two protagonists in the story was rare and precious, and if they had not died, it would have become a good story.

Shi Yu: "Do you know Bai Lu?"

"I know. Lu Nan just told us..." Fang Chen nodded subconsciously, then realized something was wrong. "You were not there when he said it just now. How did you know?"

Shi Yu lowered his eyes and glanced at him.

Fang Chen suddenly remembered that the reason why the other party was not present when Lu Nan was telling the story was because he was isolated by them, and his face suddenly became hot.

Shi Yu retracted his gaze and threw down a thunderbolt: "Guan Yueyue's death was not an accident."

Fang Chen was confused: "Why? Didn't they all say..."

"Guan Yueyue's true identity is a white deer. Deer are a species that has been through many years of natural selection. The experience of living on steep slopes in the mountains has long been engraved in their genes. How could it be possible that it lost its balance and fell off the cliff?"

Fang Chen was even more confused: "Why is she Bai Lu?"

Shi Yu: "Remember their description of Guan Yueyue?"

"She's beautiful? She's in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship with Xu Zhukong?" Fang Chen recalled. "She fell off a cliff by accident? Anything else?"

Shi Yu mentioned: "From a big city."

Fang Chen was at a loss: "What's wrong with this sentence?"

"No one has ever clearly said what her city is called." Shi Yu said, "Either she hasn't told anyone else about it, or the village is not open enough to the outside world and only has a vague idea of what it is. Either way, it's evidence that others don't know much about her past. Since they don't know, they can make it up."

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"What do you think I do in real life?"

Fang Chen hesitated for a moment: "Celebrity? Model? Anchor?"

Shi Yu: “I’m a garbage collector.”

Fang Chen: “……???”

Is the threshold for garbage collection so high these days?

"You haven't known about it, so you can't guess. You can only believe what I say." Shi Yu said calmly, "The people in this village think the same about Guan Yueyue. Her origins depend on what she tells others."

"You mean because she can't tell anyone that her true identity is a white deer, but she has to live in this village as a human, so she lied and said she came from another city? Because the distance is far, others can't verify it?" Fang Chen hesitated, "Just because of this, it is determined that she is not actually human, isn't this too..."

Too lame to stand on?

Shi Yu asked, "Guan Yueyue is dead. Have you ever heard anyone mention her family?"

Fang Chen was stunned for a while, and then suddenly realized: A living person died like this, wouldn't her parents come to see her? Wouldn't they come to collect her body?

But the villagers never mentioned it, which meant her parents never showed up after her death. Either they were really cold-blooded and didn't care about their daughter's life or death, or... she didn't have any parents at all!

If they are not human, where do human parents come from?

"If Guan Yueyue is really Bai Lu, then her death..."

Shi Yu: “It’s a man-made disaster.”

The villagers said that when she fell off the cliff, she was climbing the mountain with Xu Zhukong and his son. So who was the person who caused the disaster?

Fang Chen licked his lips: "Was it the owner of the house... or did Xu Zhukong do it himself?"

"He himself." Shi Yu expected that he would ask why again. "Didn't you all see when the coffin was opened that day? There were many scratches on Xu Zhukong's ghost's body, and his head was cracked, as if he fell from a high altitude and died head first."

Fang Chen’s eyes widened.

Shi Yu lowered her eyelashes: "Maybe she wants her enemy to experience the feeling of falling to death? After all, inflicting one's own suffering on others is always more exciting than just taking a life."

Fang Chen didn't know what to say for a moment.

After all, he thought the answer to the previous question would be the former, because from the story, the owner of the house was the one who played the calm and rational supporting role.

But it turns out that the man who wanted to jump off the cliff to commit suicide because Guan Yueyue fell off the cliff, and who went crazy and couldn't distinguish between reality and illusion, and who kept saying that he couldn't accept the fact that the girl was dead... turned out to be the murderer?

Shi Yu seemed to know what he was thinking: "It's all guesswork."

Fang Chen: “……?”

"Without evidence, those loopholes can be classified as coincidences. Maybe Guan Yueyue was really just a girl from another place whose father and mother didn't love her, and she died just because of bad luck. Xu Zhukong's death was really just because he missed her and took the same path as her."

Fang Chen tried to hold back, but couldn't help but said disapprovingly: "How could there be so many coincidences? If Xu Zhukong's death was an accident, how could the villagers say that he died of an acute illness? Why would the owner lie? The name of the game dungeon is 'White Deer', how could it have nothing to do with the main storyline?"

Shi Yu didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.

Miraculously, Fang Chen saw a sentence in his eyes: So you still know how to use your brain?

He was ashamed for a moment. It would be stupid if he still didn't understand that the other party was intentionally teaching him at this time: "Brother, no, big brother..."

Shi Yu didn't care about his reaction and continued, "I have never been to the Divine Realm before, so I don't know what the rules are here. I can only see what happens after the game starts."

Fang Chen pricked up his ears instantly.

"After coming here, you are all told by the Taoist priest Lingshan to stay in the mourning hall every night and not leave. During the day, the players who play the role of helpers are told by the owner to stay in the kitchen and not leave. Only half of the people can act each time, and each group only has half a day each time."

"Either the game is not difficult, and it is set up this way to give everyone a chance to learn the clues; or the game is too difficult, and the clues that appear in the two time periods are different, requiring cooperation and sharing to complete the game; or... the two groups of people are in an opposing relationship, so the time to obtain clues is different, the content is different, and the corresponding way to win is also different, and they are destined to fight each other in the later stages."

Shi Yu said softly, "Before I knew about the existence of the White Deer, I was inclined to the first two options. After knowing that it existed and was likely closely related to Guan Yueyue in the background, I am inclined to the third option."