An Ning had anticipated this scene after her appearance, but she showed no panic. She simply raised her eyelids and asked, "I'm looking for information about myself. Is there a problem?"
She threw the question back at the other person, her gaze sharp and unwavering.
The one who spoke just now was Jiang Yu.
He was staring intently at him.
"Really? Have you confirmed your identity?" Jiang Yu asked again without answering.
An Ning ignored him and plopped down on the sofa. "You don't believe me when I say I'm an explorer, so why ask so many questions?"
"Qi Huan and Zhang Xunyi...who did it?"
Ji Yan's probing gaze lingered on everyone for a moment, but no one answered her. Just when Ji Yan thought no one would answer, someone suddenly spoke up.
"Anyway, it wasn't me; it might have been suicide."
Strictly speaking, it wouldn't be wrong to say that these two people committed suicide.
I personally delivered them to her.
She was just about to leave when that guy surnamed Zhang came up to her again. Why shouldn't she kill him and keep him around for the New Year?
An Ning thought it made perfect sense, but she didn't show her thoughts on her face.
That would make it too easy to expose one's identity.
It's practically introducing themselves.
"How about everyone tells us where they went and who they met?" A spirited young man chuckled, trying to smooth things over. Seeing that no one objected, he struggled to overcome his social anxiety.
“I’ll go first. I just walked around the first floor and went almost everywhere. I ran into Sister Ji Yan, Brother Yu, and Sister Qi. They can vouch for me. Also… I didn’t go to the third floor.”
An Ning swallowed back the words she was about to say, "That doesn't prove you're not a serial killer," and instead changed her tune, "So, can anyone prove you didn't go to the third floor?"
Bai Qinian was taken aback, and after a long while, he shook his head awkwardly, "No."
"Can anyone prove that you were on the first floor the whole time?"
Bai Qinian froze again, his face turning bright red. "...No, there isn't any."
Hearing the answer she expected, An Ning shook her head with an "I knew it" attitude, "Then your words cannot serve as evidence that you are not a serial killer."
Bai Qinian lowered his head and said softly, "Okay."
Seeing him so calm made me feel like I had done something terribly wrong, having driven a perfectly good child to this state with just a few words.
She was about to say something to salvage the situation when someone beat her to it.
"I saw Anning go to the second floor!"
The speaker is Xu Jiayi, who has had little presence from the beginning until now, the only one who is neither talented nor popular.
Perhaps she's not the only one, but she's the least popular one among them. Even though An Ning doesn't have many fans, she's still quite popular, especially in the last few days. She's practically a regular on trending topics.
Hearing her words, An Ning turned her head and looked over, but before she could even see the other person's face clearly, she said, "When I went to the second floor, I saw you going to the third floor. Are you that serial killer?"
The moment the words "serial killer" were uttered, everyone's attention immediately focused on Xu Jiayi, scrutinizing her closely as if trying to see through her appearance to her inner self.
Although Xu Jiayi revealed that An Ning went to the second floor a second ago, and An Ning immediately retorted, which could easily arouse suspicion, her words are still somewhat credible. After all, Xu Jiayi told her that she went to the second floor, and An Ning did not refute it. Instead, she continued to follow up on Xu Jiayi's words, making it seem as if the two had a disagreement.
We can tentatively classify both of them as serial killers.
This is Jiang Yu's idea.
He suddenly realized something, and a slight smile appeared on his lips. Then his identity could be confirmed.
They must be explorers!
"Click".
After three seconds of silence, the mirror in front of him gave Jiang Yu an unexpected and unbelievable answer.
He's not an explorer?!
The sound of the bells still echoed in his ears, and the shock on Jiang Yu's face as he looked at the shattered mirror in front of him was almost tangible.
What's going on?
He's not an explorer?!
So what is he?
The answer is obvious...
What else could it be but an explorer? It could only be a murderous maniac on the opposing side of the explorers.
Jiang Yu walked out of the room in a daze, not noticing that something was emitting a cold light behind the shattered lens.
Seeing the second person appear and walk away immediately after seeing the broken mirror, Ang Lee could no longer maintain his composure. He stood up abruptly and questioned the screenwriter beside him, "Wait, what are you trying to do by hiding a gun behind the broken mirror? Who would be so kind as to search through a cracked mirror?"
The female screenwriter stood there, listening to Ang Lee's words as if they were just passing by, and only gave a few perfunctory "uh-huhs" after he had rattled off a long string of words.
"What if no one finds the pistol by the end of this episode? People will think we're insulting the audience's intelligence by writing this script!"
Ang Lee continued speaking, but the female screenwriter still didn't seem to listen to him. Just as Ang Lee was about to criticize her for the third time, the female screenwriter finally spoke up, "Haven't we found someone?"
As she spoke, she nodded slightly, gesturing for Ang Lee to look at the screen. Following the screenwriter's gaze, Ang Lee successfully saw the image on the screen.
The protagonist is Ji Yan, who appears to be the most composed among the eight.
She must have just finished asking the mirror about her identity and was waiting with certainty for the mirror to give her the answer in her heart. However, the mirror shattered while she was waiting, and snowflake-shaped cracks covered the surface of the mirror. Seeing this unexpected situation, Ji Yan was not very shocked. Her pupils dilated for a moment, and then she suddenly took two steps forward.
Her gaze was fixed on the crack in the mirror. When she saw something, her eyes widened in surprise, and then she reached out and took out the broken piece of glass.
Along with the shattered glass, she also took out a silver short gun.
"Wow, Ji Yan is really smart."
"No way, what's wrong with her? How did she know?"
Before Ang Lee could even enjoy his happiness for long, he was shocked again.
The shocking part is that Anning, a serial killer, successfully obtained the Explorer's pistol.
The surveillance footage showing An Ning taking the pistol was right next to the footage showing Ji Yan taking the pistol, and the two women's actions in the surveillance footage were strikingly similar.
"No way..."
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An Ning bumped into Ji Yan shortly after getting the pistol, and the other woman's gaze towards her was very strange.
But she pretended not to notice and continued walking towards Ji Yan. However, An Ning hadn't taken more than a few steps when Ji Yan pulled out a gun and pointed it directly at her forehead.
The two were only an arm's length apart.
“You’re a serial killer,” Ji Yan said.
An Ning raised an eyebrow, slowly raised her hand, and caught the silver-white short gun after it spun in the air. The muzzle of the gun was pointed at Ji Yan's throat. "But I'm not."
Seeing the two men wielding identical pistols, Ji Yan was momentarily stunned. "This shouldn't be happening..."
Her words abruptly stopped, and she looked down blankly, seeing a large patch of blood in her throat.
"Of course it is! Hehe."
Ji Yan suddenly realized, and gave a self-deprecating smile.
"You really are the chosen killer."
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