Chapter 76
Xu Heng opened the door of the lounge alone, his face slightly gloomy.
The rest of the players in the lounge were all there, either sitting there looking at their phones or lying on the couches taking a short rest.
Ding Rong looked up and saw that his expression was not right. He couldn't help but frowned and asked:
"Why are you the only one here? Where's the little girl?"
When the others heard the noise, they also looked towards Xu Heng.
"Dead."
When Xu Heng said this, his face was calm and his tone was almost calm.
Everyone else was stunned when they heard this. Ding Rong didn't react either, thinking he was deliberately lying again. He said dissatisfiedly:
"What nonsense are you talking about."
Xu Heng just glanced at him lightly and looked at the other people in the room.
"While the two of us were out delivering food, did any of you go out?"
"Benzi...is he really dead?" asked the curly-haired girl Taozi in disbelief.
The tone and expression of this person did not sound like she was joking. The first girl she met in the card room was really dead.
"Where did the person die?" Yitu stood up.
Xu Heng looked at him, and their eyes met briefly in the air.
"The back kitchen."
When Yitu and the others arrived at the back kitchen, Benzi's body was lying on the stove in a very abrupt manner. Her face was covered with a layer of grease, so that her eyes, which were wide open, became cloudy.
Ah Cheng couldn't help but take out his handkerchief and ran out to retch.
"Were the words on the wall written by a murderer?" Xiaoman asked in a low voice.
Taozi's face turned pale and she couldn't help but cover her nose, "That should be it."
"It wasn't written by a murderer, was it?" Xiaoman continued.
Although her voice was not loud, as if she was talking to Taozi, everyone else heard it and looked at her.
"If it wasn't written by the murderer, then who else could it be?" asked Da Zhang.
Xiaoman quickly shook her head, "I don't know, I just said it casually..."
"While those two were delivering the food cart, the rest of us didn't even leave the lounge."
"Who killed Benzi?"
After Xiaoman said this, Yitu couldn't help but frown.
She was right. During the time when Xu Heng and Benzi went to deliver the food truck, no one left the lounge.
It can be said that everyone was almost under each other's eyes and there was no opportunity to commit the crime.
The only chance to avoid everyone's sight was when someone entered the bathroom in the lounge.
In addition to the three girls Hu Zaozao, Taozi and Xueer, the other players using the bathroom were Ah Cheng who went in to wash his handkerchief.
But they were only inside for a minute or two, which was enough to kill a person, but not enough to go back and forth.
Xiaoman is very smart. What she said was just to guide the players to suspect in the direction she wanted.
"Yes, we haven't left the lounge at all!" Xue'er said excitedly, then remembered something and hesitated.
"Except for going to the bathroom...but it's such a small room without even a window, it's completely sealed off. How could a living person possibly get out?"
"So..." Tiantian, the tall and thin man, had a strange look on his face.
"Did Xu kill someone and write this on the wall himself, intentionally misleading us?"
Xiaoman looked confused and shook her head: "I don't know."
"Could it be that the murderer is someone else and not one of the twenty of us?" Hu Zao Zao hesitated.
"Impossible!" Ding Rong denied it outright. "Teacher Wen, who died this morning, brought our resumes. Eleven of them were posted on the wall, clearly showing that there was one extra person among us."
Hu looked up at him early and said nothing more.
"Let's go back to the lounge and talk."
Seeing that several people were about to start arguing, Yitu rubbed his forehead, turned around and went back to the lounge.
When he returned to the lounge, Xu Heng was sitting on the sofa, fiddling with his cell phone with no signal out of boredom.
Seeing Yi Tu coming in, Xu Heng smiled at him.
"Did they say anything? Did they start to doubt me?"
Yi Tu paused for a moment. He did not answer Xu Heng's words, but his eyes fell on the hem of the man's clothes.
Xu Heng noticed his gaze and looked down.
There was a small patch of dark color stained on the lower left corner of his navy blue sweatshirt.
He pinched it with his hand, and bright red blood stained his fingertips.
Xu Heng's expression changed instantly and he immediately got up and went into the bathroom.
Yitu was standing outside the bathroom, and could hear the sound of running water coming from inside.
"Can it be washed off?"
Xu Heng didn't respond, but just rubbed the dirty clothes hard.
A minute later, he suddenly opened the bathroom door and Yitu almost bumped his head with him.
Xu Heng's face flashed with an unnatural look, and he said gloomily:
"Why are you still here? Could I be lost?"
Yitu laughed after hearing this, "It's not impossible."
"When you and Benzi delivered the dining cart, no one left the lounge, except this..."
Yitu raised his chin and gestured to him.
Xu Heng's face darkened slightly, and he sneered, "Damn, this is really unlucky."
He didn't know how he got blood on his hands. He had never even gotten close to the notebook. As an advanced player, he would instinctively avoid blood.
So there was no blood on Xu Heng's shoes, and logically there shouldn't be any on his body either.
But something strange happened, the corner of his clothes was stained with blood.
It was as if someone was standing behind him, holding the corner of his clothes with a bloody hand.
"A murderer doesn't necessarily know he's a murderer."
Just as he brushed past Yi Tu, he heard the man speak softly.
Xu Heng turned his head suddenly, and their eyes met in the air, but there was no warmth between them.
"you....."
Xu Heng's words came to an abrupt end before he could finish them, and the other players came back one after another.
Although the person had not yet reached the door, the sound had already arrived.
"He and Benzi went to deliver the food truck together. Even if he was the one killed by the murderer, why was he the only one who came back alive?"
"Why didn't the murderer kill him?"
The two people inside the door could hear Da Zhang's voice clearly.
Xu Heng had a half-smile on his face, but Yi Tu pretended not to see it and walked to his seat and sat down.
"Keep your voice down!" Taozi scolded dissatisfiedly, "It's better not to make random guesses before you have evidence."
Although she tried to lower her voice, people could still hear it more or less when they walked to the door.
After several people pushed the door open, they first looked at the two people sitting far away. Not seeing anything unusual, they sat back in their respective seats.
No one else noticed anything, but Hu Zaozao and Ding Rong looked at their teammates seriously, feeling that the atmosphere between the two was not right.
Ding Rong didn't dare to get close to Yi Tu. Firstly, he was not familiar with the man, and secondly, there was really nothing much to say.
He sat next to Xu Heng, holding a teacup and looking at it again and again.
Xu Heng was so annoyed with him that he was about to kick him out, but Ding Rong noticed a wet corner of his clothes with his sharp eyes.
"Why are your clothes wet?"
Xu Heng raised his eyelids slightly and smiled: "It got stained with a little dirt."
Ding Rong expressed doubt, "What dirty stuff?"
Xu Heng's smile faded, and her eyes fell on him gravely.
Ding Rong was not afraid, but he knew that this man could not do anything to him.
So he continued, "Is it blood?"
After saying this and seeing Xu Heng's expression, Ding Rong knew that he had guessed right.
The other players who heard the conversation couldn't help but gather around.
"Why is there blood on you?" Da Zhang was the first to question.
Xu Heng looked up at him and sneered:
"You ask me? Why should I answer you?"
Da Zhang's expression instantly turned ugly, but he said even more confidently:
"Are you feeling guilty? Did you kill Benzi?"
Xu Heng didn't say anything, he just stood up suddenly, but the people around him subconsciously took a step back.
He walked forward and the others made way for him.
Xu Heng opened the door, paused before leaving, and turned his head to look at Da Zhang.
"You'd better be sure I'm a murderer and kill me immediately, otherwise... I'll kill you next."
After he said this, he smiled at Da Zhang.
Da Zhang froze in place, his face terribly gloomy.
"Why is this person like this?"
His girlfriend Xue'er was speechless, then patted her boyfriend's hand comfortingly.
"It's possible that a player who has acquired the identity of a murderer doesn't know that they are a murderer, right?"
Fatty rubbed his hands aside and said, "Maybe the murderer's disguise is too similar. Let's not misunderstand the good guy."
Hearing this, Da Zhang chuckled and said, "Then wait a little longer."
"Wait until more people die before killing the murderer. There are only five players left alive anyway."
Having said that, a hint of embarrassment flashed across Xiaopang's face.
In fact, the other players in the lounge were not feeling very comfortable.
The cruel reality of only five survival spots was so overwhelming that they could hardly breathe.
While they doubt others, they also doubt themselves.
Could they be the murderers themselves?
If the identity of the murderer suddenly appears, they will lose consciousness in an instant, and the blank memory lost during this period of time may be the only breakthrough point for them to know their own identity.
In the Werewolf game, no matter whether they are wolves or civilians, the most important thing is that they must know their correct identity.
Xu Heng was disturbed by Yi Tu's words, but the person who said it didn't think too much about it.
It is unlikely that Xu Heng is the murderer, although it seems that he had ample time to commit the crime.
But now the murderer doesn't strike often, so it's hard to catch him. But as long as he doesn't know how to commit suicide, it's only a matter of time before he's exposed.
However, what Ling Yitu never expected was that the murderer would strike for the third time that very night.
And this time, more than one person died.
A teacher and five students from the middle class area all died in their dormitories, looking extremely tragic.
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