【Oh my god, why did he die? ! 】

[You didn't read it carefully, the player who just died was the seventh prince in the game. The seventh prince was stabbed in the heart by a sword in the palace. The system said that the damage received at the time node before the end of the game will not be erased. Now it is obvious that the damage he received at the node was fed back to his body, so he died. ]

[The RPG mode is like this. If you die in the dungeon, you will not be able to survive even if you return to the round table. There is no possibility of infinite life extension.]

[How come a node ends like this? Why don't I understand anything? Who is the person who assassinated the young master Xiang? Why did the ghost with different people's faces push Shi Yu into the pool? ]

[The shameless ghost attacked more than just Shi Yu, but also Wu Er, Xu Xian, and Tang Linchuan. It's inexplicable. I thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out how they offended the ghost, and I didn't find any obvious common points between them. ]

[Now I really think everyone is a bad person, and everything I see is a conspiracy. The emperor, the prime minister, Sheng Yuantang, the Yan Dynasty, Dacheng, Dazhou, and Daxia... Damn, I have already started taking notes. ]

[This is why I hate ancient-themed game dungeons the most. There are so many twists and turns in them that they can give you intensive phobia.]

This is also the system message update:

[The next time point for delivery is two hours later]

【Countdown 2:00】

As soon as the number appeared, it jumped to 1:59.

The small secret room was silent for a moment, but the chandelier above was working tirelessly, spreading bright but not glaring light, but it failed to bring any warmth to people.

The first to break the silence was a female voice: "Before we start the discussion, let me ask you, has anyone else seen him in the game?"

The "he" she was pointing at was the male player on the ground whose heart was stabbed.

Everyone looked at each other, and no one jumped out.

But another male player noticed the hidden meaning in her words: "Anything else?"

"Yes." Xu Xian said calmly, "My identity in the game is the eldest princess. I met the deceased at the banquet. He is the seventh prince in the game."

Before she could continue, Qu Liannian, who was sitting opposite her, spoke up: "He is the Seventh Prince? The one who was stabbed through the heart by an assassin?"

"It looks like you've heard about it too." Xu Xian looked at him straight in the eye. "Since you received the news so quickly, I guess you must be a high-ranking official in the game, right?"

Qu Liannian hesitated for a moment and admitted: "I am a specialist investigator, and the murder of the Seventh Prince was handed over to me."

Xu Xian hit the nail on the head: "Minister of the Dali Temple?"

Qu Liannian: “…”

To be honest, in a place like this, it doesn't feel good to have your identity exposed directly.

"It seems that I guessed right." Xu Xian glanced down at the corpse beside her, "He was killed by a ghost with many different human faces on his face."

The male player who first questioned her looked up suddenly and said, "I've encountered that ghost before!"

Xu Xian: "What did it do to you?"

Tang Linchuan: "The soup I drank was poisoned. Fortunately, I had a servant with me who used a silver needle to test the poison for me, so I didn't get poisoned."

Xu Xian thought thoughtfully: "Has anyone else seen that shameless ghost?"

This time no one responded.

"Using hidden weapons, assassination, poisoning, all sound like actions that require the help of external objects, and as long as one is alert enough to avoid them, they are not that dangerous. But it is not clear whether it can attack players." Xu Xian tapped the edge of the table with her fingers, her eyes sweeping over everyone present from left to right, "Second thing, everyone should have heard about the assassination of the young master of the Xiang family, right?"

There was a subtle stagnation in the air.

"Don't be so nervous." Xu Xian said calmly, "This game is in RPG mode, and the scope is so large that it covers the capital of Dacheng Kingdom - in the later stages, it may even involve multiple different countries. Even if you become an emperor in it, you can't know everything about the world, right? Besides, the system reserves two hours for us between each launch. What do you think these two hours are used for? It's for us to exchange information and discuss."

The remaining few people looked at each other.

"I didn't ask you about your identities in the game right away, but I told you all that I am the eldest princess. This is my sincerity." Xu Xian said, "I don't care whether we will become rivals in the later stages, but we should unite in the early stages. I believe that this should not be difficult for everyone to understand."

After a while, it was Tang Linchuan who spoke again: "I am the Grand Commandant in the game, so someone specifically tests poison for me."

Taking the initiative to reveal your identity is equivalent to showing goodwill.

Two hours was too short a time, and after discussing for a while, everyone found that in this aspect of the case, the information everyone had was not much different from what they knew.

To put it bluntly, it's useless.

As the Chief Justice of Dali Temple, Qu Liannian naturally received the most inquiries. Unfortunately, he knew nothing about any of the questions. He sent everyone away one by one, complaining on his face, but in his heart he was thinking about the brief meeting with Shi Yu in the palace and what the other person had said.

They might not be able to figure it out on their own, but if it was Shi Yu...

Thinking of this, he secretly glanced in the other direction while observing everyone.

Then he met the gaze of the female devil who had blinded people's eyes at the beginning of the game, and he was so scared that he quickly retracted his gaze.

※

While the others were discussing, Shi Yu was sleeping on the table.

The girl beside him turned her head away and called out twice but got no response. She simply reached out and poked the back of his hand: "Shi Yu."

The temperature is so hot.

Shi Yu was silent for a few seconds before opening his eyes: "What?"

"You have a fever?" Wu Er touched his forehead with the back of his hand, but he avoided it. "Is it because you fell into the water yesterday?"

Shi Yu just shook his head and didn't answer.

"Isn't it?" Wu Er was particularly persistent on this question, "Why is that?"

Shi Yu's palms were sweaty, his eyes were heavy, and he didn't even look up at her: "It has nothing to do with you."

...If it weren't for his beautiful eyes, she would have killed him with a knife right now.

Wu Er opened his cute almond eyes and said, "I have learned the four diagnostic methods of observation, auscultation, inquiry and palpation. Do you mind if I take your pulse?"

"mind."

Wu Er said "Oh" and said, "Can I come to your house to find you when the next game starts?"

“That’s your freedom.”

Wu Er was about to speak.

Shi Yu then added: "It is my freedom to see him or not."

“…”

Wu Er touched the scalpel in his sleeve and pondered whether it would be better to remove a fresh eye now, or to kill the person first so that he would not struggle and the eye would be more complete.

She stared into the man's eyes for three seconds, considering how to strike with the knife: "I heard from the servants in the palace that the emperor doesn't value the prime minister as much as he seems to think."

When it came to serious matters, the other party finally kept silent.

Wu Er lowered his voice so that only the two of them could hear him and said, "Just like this morning's court session, the Prime Minister said that you were too unruly to be absent because of a small matter, but the Emperor said that you were just sick, so you should take good care of yourself and not be stubborn."

The blade of the scalpel slid down and pressed against the girl's fingertips: "They all say that the emperor values you more."

Shi Yu raised his eyelashes and their eyes met: "Wu Er."

"Um?"

"When I fell into the water, you asked me what happened, which means you didn't know that I was pushed into the water. If that's the case, then why did the maid who ran to call for help and the guards who rushed over know that someone had done it?"

She paused.

"If you just saw me being pushed into the water, you shouldn't be inconsistent in front of me." Shi Yu said, "Unless something else happened between you seeing me fall into the water and walking to the edge of the pool that made you temporarily ignore it and subconsciously pretend to be innocent in front of me. But what can you do in such a short time?"

His gaze on people was meaningless, but he always carried an inexplicable death aura. It was not the kind of decayed death that one sees in a corpse, but a lifeless death that seemed to be blown away by the wind.

"Did you go after the guy who pushed me into the water?"

Wu Er's hand trembled and he almost dropped the knife.

Shi Yu lowered his eyes to glance at the knife in her hand, then raised his eyes again, his tone not changing much: "Pretending to be innocent doesn't suit you."

"If this is your personal hobby, then it's your freedom; but if you just want to get close to me in this way, I suggest you stop investing your sunk costs early."

Wuer sat there, stunned.

A long, long time ago, someone also looked directly at her with a knife in her hand and said, "Pretending to be good doesn't suit you."

She still remembers that the man had a pair of very, very beautiful eyes.

No wonder, she thought.

I should have dug out his eyes the moment I saw him, but I compromised and gave in every time.

She thought she just wanted to see him move and talk while he was still alive, but in fact, if she really wanted to kill him, she would never have waited until now.

She just couldn't do it.

[Countdown ends]

[This release time: the first year of Xuanli]

[Delivery will start soon, please wait]

The round table secret room disappeared again.

It hurts, it hurts so much.

Shi Yu closed his eyes for several seconds, then opened them again and finally saw clearly the environment he was in.

Dirty, dark, depressing and full of blood.

It's a dungeon.

His hands and feet were shackled and he was wearing a prison uniform that was stained with blood.

From the 73rd year of Chengli to the first year of Xuanli, the once highly favored Imperial Censor was suddenly reduced to a prisoner. What happened in between?

Shi Yu sat on the ground for a few seconds, then stood up with the help of the wall. The iron shackles under his feet made a grinding sound on the stone bricks, which echoed clearly in the deep dungeon corridor.

There was a jailer guarding not far outside the cell.

The identities of the prisoners here are said to be very important. The superiors have told them to be extremely vigilant at all times. When they hear any noise, they rush to the cell where the sound comes from, holding their swords in their hands and saying, "What are you doing?!"

Shi Yu stood out of the reach of their long swords. The hole in his wrist bone pierced by the iron nail was bleeding, dripping from his fingertips onto the black ground. "Did Emperor Cheng rebel?"