Chapter 88
The camera zoomed in on the piece of paper that Su Xingyao had just drawn.
In the black font, the words outlined by him with a red signing pen were directly displayed in front of everyone.
He pointed the tip of his pen at the first paragraph describing the passionate and righteous poor student and asked Luo Yiyuan, "Yiyuan, what is your character setting today?"
Luo Yiyuan had just announced his identity to everyone in a high-profile manner, so he blurted out, "Rich second generation."
Su Xingyao didn't say anything else, just nodded, and then pointed to the words "fair and honest" on the next paragraph and asked Wu Ningning, "When I checked the body just now, how did you die?"
Although Wu Ningning was timid, she still remembered clearly how she died tonight.
She frowned, held a prop banknote between her index and middle fingers, raised it to the camera, and said painfully, "I was choked to death by money."
The identities and ways of death described by the two parties were completely opposite to the descriptions that Su Xingyao had continuously sketched out.
At this moment, even the dumbest people instantly understood why they felt so uncomfortable when they listened to the story written by Gu Feiyang just now.
Because the descriptions of everyone in Gu Feiyang's novel are too exaggerated.
Or it is completely opposite to reality.
A rich second-generation is described as a righteous poor student in his novel.
A judge who died with money stuffed all over his body and even in his mouth was described as honest and fair by his writing.
Xie Jin immediately spoke up, "So the truth back then was probably not what Gu wrote in the book."
Wu Ningning nodded in agreement, "No wonder Gu Feiyang knelt on the keyboard with this book in his hands and confessed when he died... Everything in his book is simply made up."
As the two of them talked, Luo Yiyuan suddenly remembered the four-word password that Su Xingyao had told him when she unlocked the door to the secret room in Gu Feiyang's room.
"tell tales?"
Luo Yiyuan suddenly realized the meaning of these four words.
"So this novel was completely written by Gu Feiyang to spread rumors."
Su Xingyao nodded and shared a small clue she had found with everyone.
"The four extra letters in Gu Feiyang's room, if arranged as bnsf, correspond to the four words 'stirring up trouble'."
"And Judge Wu Linlin, who died in the midst of money, died because he was blinded by greed."
After saying that, he looked at Wu Ningning, "And the room we just found for Xie Jin."
Wu Ningning thought back to the strange black and white room with the mirror, and then thought of the scene in the end where they turned the clock back to unlock the door, and the other person's tongue being cut off...
Suddenly four words came to my mind.
“It’s a complete distortion of right and wrong!!”
Wu Ningning was a little excited, "Gu Feiyang's novel said that she is true, kind and beautiful..."
"But in fact, as a lawyer, when she defended Luo Yiyuan, she directly reversed right and wrong and portrayed the perpetrator as the victim..."
Wu Ningning felt that this fact was too cruel.
"Oh my god, this is too scary."
"So the actual situation should be that Su was the student who was actually bullied, and Luo, the rich second-generation, bullied and injured the other person. Later, the matter got out of hand, and he used his money to bribe the judge and hired Xie, a lawyer who likes to confuse right and wrong, to defend him. In the end, Su was the only one who was injured and still has not gotten justice... Many years later, people like Gu published a book to profit from his mistakes."
"Su is too miserable..."
After this analysis, everyone instantly understood why each of these bodies looked so strange when they were discovered.
It turned out that these were all carefully planned by the murderer, using their deaths to make their past crimes public.
"Spreading rumors, being greedy, confusing right and wrong..."
After Luo Yiyuan read these words, he asked in confusion, "What about mine? Why is the word "Game Start" engraved on my body? Shouldn't it mean I have done many evil things?"
Gu Feiyang made a simple gesture and then said, "Aren't we all dead? Your body was the first to be discovered. If the murderer wants to complete this game of denouncing justice, shouldn't he start with you?"
"I'll kill you first, and then the killing game will begin..."
Su Xingyao nodded in agreement and took out something similar to a ballot box that she and Wu Ningning had found on the third floor.
He dumped out the paper inside.
There were five pieces of paper inside, four of which had the words "Luo Yiyuan" written on them, and the other one had the word Chu Zian written on it.
Luo Yiyuan came over and looked at the ticket carefully. "What is this?"
Su Xingyao said calmly, "Ticket to kill."
He turned over the papers with names on them, and on the back of the papers there was a small line of reminder written in cursive.
"Please write the name of the person you decide to kill tonight."
Seeing this, Luo Yiyuan frowned in dissatisfaction.
"I got four out of five votes, so I was voted to death on the first night..."
Su Xingyao corrected him, "No, it was decided to kill him."
Luo Yiyuan suddenly realized that he might have been killed by the others and took a deep breath, "No wonder I died so miserably."
He took a step back, "Is there no one among you who can pity me..."
Gu Feiyang spread his hands, "There's nothing we can do. No one wants to be the first to be killed..."
Wu Ningning also responded, "Besides, as the bully and the instigator, everyone will definitely vote for you first..."
Knowing that he was set to have such a bad reputation, Luo Yiyuan deliberately pretended to be hurt. He picked up the ballots and looked at them one by one.
Originally he wanted to create some show effects, but he discovered a problem.
"Hey, that's not right. There are five votes in total, but there are six of us here today..."
After saying that, he looked at Su Xingyao, "So the murderer is Su Su? As a victim, you are now seeking revenge from us?"
After saying this, Luo Yiyuan spread his hands and said, "Is the truth so simple...?"
Xie Jin pulled the ballot out of his hand and rolled his eyes.
"It can't be that simple. Didn't you see that the system didn't come out to say that we found the truth..."
Luo Yiyuan touched his head and chuckled, "Indeed, it is true. How could it be so simple?"
Wu Ningning also nodded, "It's definitely not that simple. We have only found four bodies so far. The bodies of Xingyao and Zian have not been found in the entire villa."
Chu Zian, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly heard Wu Ningning mention him. He could only smile and nod, "Indeed, I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't mentioned it."
He had actually noticed a long time ago that there were no bodies or clues of himself and Su Xingyao.
But the game setting tonight made him feel too involved. He vaguely felt like the program crew was calling on him, so even if he noticed it, he didn't dare to say it out loud.
However, when Chu Zian gave a perfunctory answer, Su Xingyao looked at him.
Su Xingyao was standing with the light behind her, and from Chu Zian's perspective, she could only see the other person's face as a blur.
Su Xingyao's voice was cold and indifferent, and seemed a little ethereal in the silent night.
He asked Chu Zian, "So Zian, since you are here, what role do you play in this story?"
Originally, these words were ordinary, but they sounded unpleasant to Chu Zian's ears.
He didn't dare to look Su Xingyao in the eye, so naturally he didn't answer.
After Su Xingyao's reminder, the guests also noticed Chu Zian who suddenly appeared.
"Indeed, Zi'an wasn't mentioned in this story..."
"But I actually voted for Zi'an, which means he is also related to this matter?"
"Wow, so your identity is quite mysterious, Zi'an."
Chu Zian smiled awkwardly, "I'm not too sure..."
Gu Feiyang looked at Chu Zian, who was acting very awkwardly, and suddenly took out a photo from his arms.
"If you hadn't mentioned Zi'an, I would have almost forgotten that from the clues I just collected, I saw that Zi'an and we graduated from the same high school."
After saying that, he showed the graduation photo. It showed the graduation photo of the 20xx graduates. Chu Zian, Luo Yiyuan, and Gu Feiyang were all in it, and they were in the same class.
Gu Feiyang looked back and forth between himself and Chu Zian in the photo, "You must be an important person, there is no reason for me to leave you out of my novel..."
"And why isn't Xingyao on this?"
Gu Feiyang was just talking to himself in confusion when the elusive Xiao Ai suddenly spoke.
Suddenly, a burst of laughter floated from above the room.
"Hehehe, it seems that after a new round of friendly discussions, everyone has a new understanding of the truth~"
"But we haven't collected all the information yet. If we want to solve the mystery and get out of here safely, we need everyone to work harder."
"Hmm~~ But this is a bit boring at the moment, why don't you all divide into new groups~"
As soon as Xiao Ai finished speaking, the table in the hall suddenly moved, and a hole suddenly appeared in the middle.
Then something like a treasure chest slowly rose up from the cave.
After a few seconds, the box opened automatically, revealing six different colored jewels.
"Xiao Ai, I don't have anything to treat you. Please find something you like and take it with you."
They said they could choose what they liked, but everyone knew that the program team was asking them to draw lots to form groups.
However, the things inside are all different and seem to have no connection. The guests who are not sure about the program team's routine don't know how to choose.
Finally, at Xiao Ai's urging, everyone chose a color they liked.
In order to avoid being in the same group with Su Xingyao, Chu Zian specially picked the purple color.
However, what you fear will come to you. When Xiao Ai finally announced the color scheme, his purple was actually matched with the yellow chosen by Su Xingyao.
So a new round of guest teams was formed.
The two girls, Xie Jin and Wu Ningning, were drawn together.
Gu Feiyang and Luo Yiyuan, the two bickering duo, were put into the same group.
As for Chu Zian, he had no choice but to team up with Su Xingyao.
When Chu Zian heard this grouping, he was devastated.
However, what made him even more upset was that their group was actually assigned to investigate the truth outside the manor...
This manor was built by the program crew later in the program.
This was not the first time he came here. He knew very clearly what had happened on the cliff not far from the gate of this manor...
For a moment, Chu Zian felt that something seemed to be developing out of control.
And out of self-preservation instinct, he was very reluctant to go out with Su Xingyao.
Looking at the dark night outside the window, Chu Zian's heart was beating so violently that it seemed about to burst out of his chest.
Therefore, even though Su Xingyao called him several times, he just stood there and did not move.
"Chu Zian."
Seeing Su Xingyao's face suddenly approaching, Chu Zian screamed in fright and took two steps back.
"Don't...you...don't come near me."
"What's wrong with you, Zian?"
In the end, it was Wu Ningning's voice that calmed Chu Zian, who was like a frightened bird.
Enduring the torment in his heart, he used all his strength to move his stiff legs and follow Su Xingyao out.
After being divided into groups, the three groups went to different places to find the final truth.
Xie Jin and Wu Ningning quickly found a basement in the villa.
They found a copy of the test scores.
There are records of the top ten students in the grade, the first one is Su Xingyao and the second one is Chu Zian.
"Susu's grades are so good."
As soon as Wu Ningning finished speaking, she saw a computer next to her.
After studying the computer for a while, Xie Jin entered Su Xingyao's test number into it.
This time it went extremely smoothly and the locked computer was cracked.
Before the two could be surprised, they saw two videos on it.
The content was filmed in advance by actors hired by the program crew wearing the corresponding guests' costumes.
Xie Jin opened the first clip and found that the video showed a student being beaten by Luo Yiyuan in a corner of the campus.
When the camera zoomed in, Wu Ningning discovered that the person being beaten was actually Chu Zian...
"Zi'an was also bullied???"
Before Wu Ningning had time to be surprised, she found out about Chu Zian's information here, and saw that when the other party was beaten without any resistance, Su Xingyao came out to stop the bullying and took the initiative to protect him.
After being interrupted, Luo Yiyuan impatiently uttered harsh words.
Chu Zian, who was helped up by Su Xingyao, looked at Su Xingyao with a strange expression.
Xie Jin frowned and quickly clicked on the second video.
In this video, the person being beaten turned out to be Su Xingyao as expected.
"See if you can still make a name for yourself."
"You're trying to be a hero, huh? So what if you're an excellent student? You still get beaten up anyway!"
"Let you mind your own business, let you mind your own business."
Luo Yiyuan violently beat Su Xingyao, who was already bruised and battered, while the man next to him named Gu Feiyang was adding fuel to the fire.
"The boss even went to the dean to complain about us that day."
"Fuck, you're going to complain, right?"
After hearing this, Luo Yiyuan became even angrier and pressed Su Xingyao's head directly into the toilet.
"Stupid x, I'll never let you go!"
Su Xingyao, who was almost confused, quietly defended herself, "I didn't."
However, no one listened to what he said. After bullying others, Luo Yiyuan walked away arrogantly.
Gu Feiyang, who was left behind, kicked Su Xingyao, who was lying limp on the ground, in a triumphant manner.
"Do you think anyone will believe you? Just take the blame..."
Su Xingyao was lying on the ground, unable to move. She waited until everyone had left before she asked softly.
"Why would you lie to the police..."
The person he was talking to was not filmed, but the audio was recorded.
"Su Xingyao, don't think you are a hero."
*
At the same time, Luo Yiyuan and Gu Feiyang also found a yellowed letter stuck in a book.
"Let's go call the police together, Xingyao."
The letter was signed by Chu Zian.
This group of people did not see the video found by Xie Jin and others, so they are still trying to find Chu Zian's information and guessing the relationship between him and Su Xingyao.
Before Luo Yiyuan could figure out the reason, Gu Feiyang found three more file bags.
The first one contains medical records.
It shows that Su Xingyao was beaten and her hands and feet were broken the day before the college entrance examination.
The second file bag contained a court judgment.
The judge classified the injuries suffered by Su Xingyao as mutual fighting and sentenced Su Xingyao...
The third file bag contains the school’s admission quota.
It shows the number of admissions to a certain university. The name of Su Xingyao, who was originally ranked first, was crossed out and replaced by Chu Zian, who was ranked second.
After seeing this material, the audience who have always had a bird's eye view have basically understood it.
[In the previous video, Su Xingyao asked Chu Zian why he lied to the police, but here it says Chu Zian asked Su Xingyao to go to the police together... So he did it on purpose, right? ]
[It seems that Su Xingyao saved an ungrateful person...]
[This Chu Zian wouldn't repay kindness with enmity, selling out Su Xingyao for this admission quota...]
[He saved a ungrateful person, but was framed by a gossiper. As a result, he was bullied for no reason. The bully beat him up, so he couldn't take the college entrance examination. In the end, the bully bribed the judge and sentenced him to several years in prison... Oh my god, if it were me, I would go crazy and come back to take revenge on these beasts.]
Just when the audience was feeling extremely sorry for Su Xingyao's situation, Luo Yiyuan and Gu Feiyang suddenly swore at the same time.
“Oh my god!!”
The two of them found a photo.
There are two people in the photo.
The two of them held each other's shoulders and smiled brightly.
And their appearance...
But they are exactly the same as Su Xingyao.
Luo Yiyuan: "These are... twins?"
Gu Feiyang: "So, Su Xingyao has an older brother or younger brother?"
Luo Yiyuan: "I think I understand now."
"So one of the older brothers was a victim. Many years later, the other one learned the truth about the slander of his relative, so he found those who participated in the school bullying and unfair trial here, and then took revenge one by one."
Gu Feiyang nodded, and then added, "My brother came here for revenge."
He pointed to the unclear words on the bottom line, "It says here that Su Xingyao is the younger brother."
"So it's my brother who's taking revenge, but where's Su Xingyao?"
——
Outside the manor, neither Su Xingyao nor Chu Zian spoke.
The clothes we wore for the recording were relatively thin, and the night wind blew over us, bringing a deep chill.
"Where do you think my body might be?"
Su Xingyao's sudden words made Chu Zian like a frightened bird again.
Especially when he heard the word "corpse", it made his heart beat fast.
He lowered his eyes to the ground and just played dumb.
"I don't understand what you are saying."
Su Xingyao looked up at Chu Zian, smiled gently, and asked him as if jokingly.
“Maybe it’s at the bottom of the mountain.”
Hearing this, Chu Zian paused and looked at the other party in horror.
"What do you mean... who are you?!"
Although he had prepared himself mentally countless times, the seed of Su Xingyao falling off a cliff and miraculously surviving was still buried in his heart.
Intellectually, he understood that Su Xingyao should be alive.
But that mountain is so high…can I really survive if I fall down?
The nightmare that had scared him awake for countless nights before seemed to come back at this moment. Chu Zian himself did not realize how strange the question he asked was and how terrifying his expression was.
However, Su Xingyao, who was standing opposite him, answered his words very calmly.
"Maybe it's Su Xingyao who's already dead."
"Or... they are the twins who are seeking revenge for the death of Su Xingyao."
Su Xingyao's words echoed softly in the night breeze.
Earlier, when he looked up at the mirror on the ceiling that faced him in Xie Jin's room, he had guessed that the twins were seeking revenge.
There is currently an information gap among the guests.
Therefore, netizens who had already guessed the truth were shocked when they heard that Su Xingyao had guessed the twins without seeing those clues.
[Fuck, Su Xingyao doesn't know the information that other groups have found, he can even guess this]
[This reasoning ability is really strong]
[When did he know?]
Netizens discussed the issue heatedly.
However, Chu Zian was sarcastic and didn't know that Su Xingyao was telling him the plot.
In his opinion, Su Xingyao's mention of the corpse and the bottom of the mountain had hidden meanings.
At this moment, he was so frightened that he was out of his wits and didn't even dare to look Su Xingyao in the eye.
All the information he received was about revenge for the dead Su Xingyao.
Chu Zian followed Su Xingyao in a daze.
But he didn't realize that everything in front of him was becoming more and more familiar.
It was not until Su Xingyao found a mobile phone on the edge of the cliff based on the clues left by the program team.
After unlocking the password, a video automatically played on the phone.
It clearly recorded the entire process of Su Xingyao being pushed down.
His body fell suddenly from the cliff, as straight as a stone falling into the water.
The culprit who pushed him down was Chu Zian, who had madness in his eyes.
【？ ？ ？ ？ 】
【What the hell???】
[Chu Zian actually killed Su Xingyao]
[Oh my god, he actually pushed the person down the mountain in the end...]
[Su Xingyao was right about this plot and direction. His body is actually under the mountain! ! ]
[Suddenly I feel this story is a bit scary]
[No wonder Chu Zian was also avenged by his brother, he is so cruel]
[This person is too scary]
After the video finished playing, Su Xingyao did not stop it, but played it again.
He looked at Chu Zian, whose face was ashen, and said calmly, "This is the crime scene."
He asked the other party, "Do you remember?"
Chu Zian didn't dare to move or respond.
Su Xingyao smiled, took his hand and pointed to the cliff not far away.
"That's where you pushed me down."
When Chu Zian revisited the old place, he no longer had the courage and arrogance to push people down.
Now, he only felt that Su Xingyao's hand holding his was so cold that it seemed like a ghost demanding his life.
Even the other person's voice seemed weak and different from that of a normal person.
The moment to reveal the truth had arrived. Seeing that Su Xingyao was so into the show, the production crew reminded him through the headset that there was a blood bag in his jacket, and for the sake of effect, they could break the blood bag to make the atmosphere more terrifying.
However, Chu Zian was not aware of this information gap.
So what he saw was Su Xingyao with a pale face, and blood slowly seeping out of her chest and abdomen while she was collecting a debt from him.
The blood stained the other person's clothes red.
Chu Zian was so frightened when he saw this scene that his legs went weak.
"Don't come over here, Su Xingyao, are you a human or a ghost..."
Su Xingyao pulled the corner of his mouth, "Now? I don't know."
He glanced at the bottom of the mountain where he was pushed down before, and murmured softly, "Maybe I have died once."
After saying that, he slowly walked towards Chu Zian and asked him calmly, "Why did you push me down that day?"
Everyone thought that Su Xingyao was acting with Chu Zian, but only Chu Zian understood what Su Xingyao was asking.
He shook his head and stepped back, "I don't know."
Su Xingyao stared into his eyes, "You know——"
After pausing for a few seconds, he spoke slowly.
"Do you know how long it takes to fall off a cliff?"
Su Xingyao gave her own answer, "It only takes less than a minute."
"You will hit the ground hard, and countless branches will scratch your skin as you roll down."
"Even...piercing your abdomen."
Chu Zian couldn't help but look at Su Xingyao's abdomen which was still bleeding, and his scalp felt very tight.
However, the other party's voice continued.
"You will watch the blood drain from your body."
"During that time, you thought about asking for help, but there was no signal at the bottom of the mountain..."
"There was no sign of any rescue workers there either."
"There are only wild beasts that have been eyeing you... They will wait for an opportunity to come and tear your flesh."
"And you can only watch all this helplessly, quietly waiting for life to pass away."
“It’s going to be physically painful at first.”
“Then there was a gradual numbness.”
"At last, he was in a state of confusion, unwillingly waiting for death."
The audience in front of the screen felt a chill on their backs as they listened to Su Xingyao's description.
[Su Xingyao's description really makes my scalp tingle]
[Why does it feel like I really fell down and suffered this? It sounds so painful]
[Is this a script? Or did Su Xingyao improvise and come up with so many ideas?]
In the camera, facing the speechless Chu Zian, Su Xingyao asked him the last question.
"Chu Zian, why did you push me down that day?"
Just when the audience thought it was over, a scream suddenly appeared in the camera.
Chu Zian, whose psychological defenses had long been tortured to pieces, held his head and screamed, his emotions becoming extremely unstable.
"ah!!!!"
"Su Xingyao, get away from me! Are you a human or a ghost?!"
"Don't play tricks on me!!"
After saying that, he picked up a branch from the ground and took a defensive posture.
"If I can push you down once, I can kill you a second time!!"
Looking at the insane Chu Zian in the camera, the audience couldn't help but praise him - [Chu Zian, if you had this acting skill before...]
However, the audience had only finished typing halfway when they heard a shocking secret.
"Who told Jiang Xunche to keep talking about you every other day?"
"A vixen like you deserves to die!!"
"The seductive vixen deserves to die!!"
“Damn it!!”
"You deserve it for pushing you down!!"
"You should die under this mountain!!!"
Amid Chu Zian's crazy shouting, Su Xingyao lowered his head expressionlessly.
He took out the mobile phone from the program crew and pressed three numbers on the button.
A few seconds later, the call was connected.
Su Xingyao's voice was particularly clear in the empty night sky.
He said, "Hello, police officer. I want to call the police."
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