He Weiyou was confused by the question. When he met the other party's eyes, he realized what the other party meant. He hurriedly explained: "I didn't do anything!"
Shi Yu looked at him quietly.
"I just arrived at the grove and haven't even entered the palace yet, and the guards there pointed at me and shouted assassin. What can I do?" He Weiyou felt so wronged that he almost swore to the heavens, "Besides, they said there were two assassins. When someone shouted assassination, I was clearly with you feeding chickens. How could I have the time to commit the crime?!"
Shi Yu listened: "Why are they pointing at you and calling you an assassin?"
He Weiyou swallowed his saliva: "Maybe, because I happened to be there?"
Shi Yu leaned against the wall: "Why didn't you explain it at that time?"
He Weiyou lowered his voice: "I was just busy running."
Shi Yu: "Why are you running?"
He Wei had a conditioned reflex: "I'm scared."
“…”
After a while.
Shi Yu lowered his eyes and left his hiding place in Chongxian Hall.
He Weiyu hesitantly chased after him: "Well, I know it's not pleasant to be wrongly accused, but don't you still have me to keep you company? Isn't that how it's usually written in suspense novels? The suspicious people who appear at the crime scene at the beginning are not the real murderers, but the fronts and shields set up by the murderers. The next plot will be the official investigation, evidence collection, questioning and interviews to catch the real murderer and clear the original suspect..."
Before he could finish his words, the person walking in front of him suddenly turned around, grabbed his collar and dragged him into the garden nearby.
"division……"
"Shut up."
A team of patrolling guards suddenly appeared on the road the two were walking on. The leader seemed to have noticed the movement here: "Who's over there? Get out!"
No one responded, and the leader seemed to be about to move closer, but a guard next to him stepped forward, said "I'll go and take a look" and ran over here.
He Weiyou pressed his back against the peach tree in the forest, and even his breathing became lighter unconsciously.
The guard walked around the thick peach tree, picked up a black cat from the ground, and shook his head at the guard leader: "It's a wild cat."
The leader of the guards waited for him to return to the team and arranged the people for patrolling this area before leaving with the rest of the people.
The air was quiet for a moment, and the guard who was checking came back behind the peach tree: "They're gone."
Shi Yu stood behind the tree trunk: "Thank you."
Jiang Jiaying wore a black gauze hat, a badge on his chest, and a sword on his waist, looking like a royal guard. He said with a smile, "It's a small matter."
He Weiyou still remembered seeing the other party in the pure white space in the previous game, and he looked at him in amazement: "Did you get this outfit as soon as you arrived today? That's amazing."
Jiang Jiaying smiled and said, "How can I compare to you guys, who come here and assassinate the emperor."
Shi Yu: "How do I leave the palace?"
"Over there, go straight and climb over the wall." Jiang Jiaying pointed in a direction. "Were you seen by the guards before?"
"Um."
"It's better to get out. Now the whole palace knows that the assassins are two people wearing sack clothes with long and short hair. There are also witnesses who saw your appearance. The palace can't accommodate you." Jiang Jiaying took the lead and took a shortcut. "Remember to change clothes after you get out. Wearing a mask is best. The emperor will probably continue to investigate or even issue a wanted order. At least cover your face."
The more He Weiyou listened, the more he felt something was wrong: "Wait, we didn't assassinate the emperor. We were clearly wronged."
Jiang Jiaying: "What do you mean?"
After finally explaining, Jiang Jiaying finally understood: "So you just ran into this because of bad luck?"
"It's not just bad luck, it's simply insane." He Weiyou suddenly thought of something and grabbed his arm. "Wait, why do we have to leave? Why can't we go to the emperor to clarify that it wasn't us who assassinated him?"
Jiang Jiaying straightened his black hat and said, "Go see the emperor? Why should he see you?"
"Don't we have you?" The more He Weiyou thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible. "Aren't you pretending to be a guard now? As long as you can pass on the message, why would we be afraid that the emperor would not see us?"
Jiang Jiaying looked at him with a complicated expression and silently pulled her arm out.
He Wei saw that he had no intention of taking them to see the emperor, and he couldn't get an answer, so he could only ask Shi Yu.
Shi Yu only asked in return: "How do you know that the emperor saw the assassin's face?"
He Weiyou: “…” Yes, assassins are usually masked, what if the emperor doesn’t see it?
Jiang Jiaying tried to hold back her laughter but couldn't help laughing out loud.
He Weiyou said depressedly: "Don't laugh at me, I know I have a rigid mind."
"Stubborn?" Jiang Jiaying also held a lantern in his hand, but he had put out the fire since he separated from the team. There were no stars or moon in the sky, and the three of them walking together did not attract much attention. "Excuse me, you are too glamorizing yourself. In today's situation, something happened and you went to watch the excitement. It was originally a very simple matter, but you made a fuss first, and then ran away after being discovered. It was obvious that you only needed to explain in time that you were just passing by and nothing happened. If you ran away, wouldn't that be a guilty conscience? You are wronged, and those guards who were deceived by you also feel wronged. This is because Shi Yu has a good temper. If he was replaced by someone else, for example, my scumbag captain who was deceived by you, he would have kicked you both in the balls a long time ago."
“…”
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Outside the palace is a bustling street.
Before the news of the assassination could reach the ears of the common people, the streets were crowded with shops and vendors pushing carts.
He Weiyu felt that he had committed a crime, so as soon as he left the palace, he offered to help with dressing and accommodation, and then ran away without a trace.
Time passed minute by minute, and when the vendors outside the alley began to pack up and leave, there was a sudden rumbling sound in the sky, and heavy rain poured down.
Crash——
An umbrella was open overhead.
Jiang Jiaying held the umbrella handle and asked, "Are you going to wait any longer?"
Shi Yu looked at him a little bewilderedly.
"You really didn't assassinate the emperor?"
"no."
"I believe you." Jiang Jiaying smiled, "Then do you believe what he just said that he didn't do anything?"
Shi Yu didn't say anything.
"I was not at the scene when the assassination took place, and the information about the assassin is almost exactly what you two said. Let's not talk about the length of the hair, but the clothes are exclusive to chicken farmers, which means that the criminal who assassinated the emperor is among the twelve players. He arrived at the scene earlier than you, and you don't know what he said or did after he arrived." Jiang Jiaying turned his head away, "He discussed it with his companions in advance. In order to confuse the guards, he deliberately asked his companions to make their appearance very memorable. Afterwards, when you show up, they can directly pull a scapegoat, so that you two are in the same boat; or, to be more conspiratorial, they made such a scene to give another companion the identity of a savior to infiltrate the palace."
The umbrella wing was not very wide, and the cold rain slid down the ribs, falling drop by drop on the ground and on people's shoulders and hair.
Jiang Jiaying tilted the umbrella towards him: "Have you never doubted him?"
Shi Yu said: "He was with me when the assassination happened."
Jiang Jiaying's guess came out immediately: "That means his companion used props to create the illusion of a second person, or he created the second person himself without a companion, and shouted that there was an assassin to attract you to run over, and finally he alarmed the assassin, and you were dragged into the water?"
Shi Yu shook his head: "If there really are such props, they can use them to direct and perform the show by themselves. Involving others will only do more harm than good."
Jiang Jiaying: "Then who do you think the assassin will be?"
"A lot." Shi Yu looked outside the alley. The vendors were desperately trying to keep out the rain because of the sudden change in weather. The lanterns with lights were evacuated one by one, and the light around them gradually dimmed. "If they are the natives of this dungeon world, they are probably involved in the main quest. If they are passive behaviors caused by their identities as players, then it means that they hid themselves afterwards. He and I were affected because of bad luck. If it is out of the players' subjective will, then it depends on whether the decision was made temporarily or deliberately."
Jiang Jiaying listened quietly.
"I tend to think it was premeditated, otherwise there would be no reason for the assassin to enter the palace to meet the emperor in such a suspicious capacity. Adding the hair condition, I even suspect that the players who took action were a man and a woman."
Shi Yu said: "If the two assassins decided to break into the palace at night at the beginning of the game, I think they were more likely to collect information rather than assassinate. Because at this time, everyone is completely in the dark about the dungeon. The only consequence of rashly assassinating the emperor is not only to bring disaster upon oneself, but also to fall into a passive situation and be unable to contact the outside world. This dungeon world is obviously a feudal society with an imperial system. Compared with ordinary people, it is obviously more conducive to the mission to attack the emperor directly - whether it is to understand the background or to do something else."
"They broke into the palace, controlled the emperor, made him their puppet in this world, or simply found a way to usurp the emperor's identity, thereby controlling the Imperial Guards and even the entire Nevernight Kingdom for their own use. As for being noticed, it might be an accident, it might be intentional, or they simply didn't care about this issue when they took action. Anyway, the emperor's identity is their property afterwards, and it's just a matter of a word to escape the crime of assassination."
His voice was calm. “Originally, the disappearance of the assassin would probably have become an unsolved case, but now there is a suspect who just meets the requirements. As long as the two assassins have no problem with their brains, they probably won’t let go of this opportunity.”
Jiang Jiaying answered with understanding: "An opportunity to pin the blame on you?"
Shi Yu nodded lightly: "As long as everyone believes that the real assassin has escaped, no one will doubt that there is something wrong with the emperor's testimony, let alone doubt that the real assassin has always been in the palace, by the emperor's side."
Just then, the sound of someone walking in the rain was heard outside the alley.
Jiang Jiaying looked at the person who came: "It seems that my thoughts are dark, and he still has a conscience and didn't abandon you directly."
He Weiyou had already changed into a new outfit, a full set of green robes that made him look like a human-shaped fluorescent light in the night. He stopped panting, and the first thing he did was to throw the bright red cape in his hand at Shi Yu: "Put it on quickly, don't catch a cold again."
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The lights were still on in the palace, and the Hall of Mental Cultivation was located directly behind the main palace where meetings were held every morning. Guards surrounded the palace in three layers, and imperial doctors carrying medicine boxes were coming in and out.
After waiting for a long time until everything was quiet and the door was closed, the chief eunuch who was guarding the emperor's dragon bed stood quietly. Suddenly, under the light, a hand was raised high from behind and slashed at the back of the opponent's neck.
The guard fell down, and the person who did it turned around, pulled open the bed curtain, put his hand under the eyes of the person on the bed, and snapped his fingers.
The Emperor, who had just been examined by various imperial doctors and diagnosed as "fainted from shock and in urgent need of rest", opened his eyes and said: "Shun Nian."
Qingqi God, whose real name is Shunian, is the thirteenth chief god in the temple and is in charge of the rebirth of all things.
"Has the old thing been dealt with?"
"Don't worry, I will never disturb you from being the emperor." The woman chuckled, "Zhuo Su."
The God Chu Mu, whose real name is Zhuo Su, is the fourteenth god in charge of the temple and is in charge of the withering of things at noon.
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