Chapter 001 Death Countdown
"Hua Hua Hua..." The faucet in the bathroom was turned to the maximum and water poured down.
A pair of hands with slender, flawless white fingers like jade caught the water and then splashed it on the face.
"Huh..." The owner of these hands supported himself on the edge of the sink, took a long breath, and looked up at himself in the mirror.
His fair face held the same features as before, but now, as if ten layers of filters had been added, his aura had undergone a drastic change. Especially now, with his face covered in water droplets and a pair of large, watery eyes, he looked...
Please forgive his poor Chinese, as he can only think of the adjective "pitiable".
As it turned out, his feeling was not wrong. A passerby walked by the sink, glanced at him in the mirror, and then, as if shocked, paused and hurried out of the bathroom without even washing his hands. He even heard the passerby gasp.
Why did things turn out like this?
Dong Yexi expressed his great incomprehension.
How could a 1.83 meter tall, "big, strong man" with thick eyebrows and sharp eyes become like this?!
The story begins five minutes ago.
Five minutes ago, Dong Yexi was cheering in his dorm room. After two full days and nights, he had finally completed his graduation thesis. Just as he was about to jump for joy, his vision suddenly blurred, and the scene around him instantly changed. Night turned to day, the dorm became the dining hall, and there were four complete strangers around him.
Dong Yexi froze, his hands raised in clenched fists and the big fangs on his face still hanging. The four people sitting next to him all turned to look at him with puzzled expressions and asked in unison, "Dong Ye, what's wrong with you?"
Before Dong Yexi could ask, "Who are you?", the girl sitting on his left raised her hands, held his left hand, and said softly, "Xi, are you thinking of something happy? Can you tell me about it?"
The girl sitting on his right was not to be outdone. She also grabbed his right hand and said coquettishly, "Lijia wants to know too~" and gently pulled it twice.
Dong Yexi was stunned at that time.
Although he is indeed very handsome and has received many love letters, he has very little contact with girls, especially physical contact. Except for his mother and the female elders in the family, he has never held a girl's hand!
He instantly felt uncomfortable and got goosebumps.
The two men opposite him were looking at him with envy, as if it was normal for this to happen to him.
Dong Yexi didn't know how to react for a moment.
At this moment, he found that a large paragraph of text seemed to be floating in front of his eyes. He didn't pay attention to anything else, but just stared at the last line, which read [Death Countdown: 02:01:59.36]. The numbers in milliseconds kept changing, and a second was gone in the blink of an eye!
He was immediately frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.
Without caring about anything else, he immediately made an excuse to go to the bathroom to figure out what this thing was.
A thing similar to a personal panel floated in front of him, with the words written on it:
【Character】：Hitano Xi, male, 22 years old
【Identity】：Graduate student of the School of Medicine, Dongdu University
【Tags】：Aquaman, Academic Master
【Skills】: Basic first aid knowledge
[Appearance description]: Using your beauty to commit murder (if beauty could kill, then you would be a walking nuclear weapon)
【Upcoming Event】：Poisoning and death in a western restaurant
【Murder weapon】: Cyanide and potassium chloride
Cause of death: Poisoning
[Suspects]: Kaga Rika, Fukami Suemi, Sugii Ichiro
[Death Countdown]: 01:58:45.08
In just a short while, two minutes had passed!
Dong Yexi forced himself to ignore the countdown and began to analyze the current situation.
This person has the same name and age as him, and looks the same, but... he studies computer science and knows nothing about medicine. So "basic first aid knowledge" should be a bonus. After all, a medical graduate student can't have only this one skill, right?
The "scholar" in the [label] is quite consistent with him, but he refuses to be called "sea king". He will not toy with other people's feelings! This should be the character setting of the original owner, and has nothing to do with him (serious face).
What left him speechless the most was the description of appearance. What the hell was "using beauty to commit crimes"? And the subsequent commentary was outrageous, wasn't it a bit too much to use such an adjective for a "sea king"? Was it just an excuse for the original owner's fickleness?
He now feels that the reason why the original owner was poisoned was related to the label "Aquaman".
As it turned out, his guess was correct.
He clicked on the name of the [suspect] and saw their "character profile" and "motive for murder."
[Kaga Rika]: A classmate in the medical department, she's completely obsessed with you and is madly pursuing you. But you seem to be getting closer to Fukami Suemi lately, and she suspects you two are together, and she's very unhappy about it.
[Fukami Suemi]: A medical classmate who has a crush on you and is truly devoted to you. But you've been getting closer to Kaga Rika lately, and she suspects you two are together, which makes her very unhappy.
[Ichiro Sugii]: He is a classmate in the medical department and a good friend of yours. However, you seem to be getting very close to the goddess he likes recently. He thought you two were together and he was feeling very depressed.
After reading it, Dong Yexi was speechless.
Good man, the original owner is truly worthy of being called the "Sea King," flirting everywhere, making everyone think he's in a relationship with someone else. If he doesn't die, who will?
But! Now this Shura field has fallen on his head, and he will replace the original owner and be killed by the person who cannot get his love!
Dong Yexi was completely panicked, thinking anxiously: No! I can't give up my life like this! I quickly thought of some way to escape death.
Perhaps the approach of death stimulated his potential, and he actually came up with a "brilliant" idea.
Since these people's "motive for murder" was that he was in a relationship with a girl, wouldn't he have just directly stated that he didn't like girls? Wouldn't that have fundamentally solved the problem? As for his previous flirting behavior... well, maybe it could be explained as being a gay friend?
Once this idea came to mind, he couldn't forget it. He repeatedly calculated each link, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. "Coming out" was really the best solution, and it was a permanent solution that could fundamentally solve the problems left over from the original owner's previous "Sea King" behavior.
After thinking of a solution, Dong Yexi calmed down.
He took out a tissue to wipe the water droplets off his face, fixed his messy bangs in front of the mirror, and then walked back to the restaurant with firm steps, ready to die.
Seeing him coming over, Kagarika pinched her throat and said coquettishly: "Xi, you are so slow~"
Fukamizu Suemi smiled slightly and said, "It's not that slow. The dishes have just arrived and we can eat them right away."
Higashino Hi clearly saw that Kaga Rika's expression twisted for a moment.
What to eat? He definitely won’t eat this meal!
Dong Yexi stood by the dining table, looking at the other four people expressionlessly.
Sugi Ichiro asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Why don't you sit down?"
Dong Yexi took a deep breath and slowly said, "Actually, I have something important to tell you today..."
After hearing his words, except for Shirabu Kenjiro, who was not suspected at all, the expressions of the other three changed and they began to feel uneasy.
Kaga Rika's expression twisted again. She smiled, gritted her teeth, and said, "We can talk after dinner if we have anything to say." But she was thinking, "Is Xi going to announce his relationship? I absolutely, absolutely do not agree with him being with that woman, Fukamizu Suemi!"
Dong Yexi's heart skipped a beat. From what she said, could she be the murderer?
Then Fukamizu also said: "Yes, the food will get cold later." She thought to herself: Ah! I really don't want to hear that woman's name from Xi's mouth!
Ichiro Sugii said, "Haven't you been talking about eating steak here for a long time? Now that you're finally here, why don't you try it first?" He was thinking, "Higashino, if we're good brothers, don't tell my goddess that you're dating me!"
Higashino Xi: ...Okay, just from the fact that he persuaded me to eat, it’s impossible to tell who the murderer is.
But he absolutely cannot sit down today!
"No, I've been holding these words in for a long time, and I have to say them today! And you're all my best friends, I don't want to hide anything from you!"
Dong Yexi's determined expression surprised everyone.
The calmest person present was Shirabu Kenjiro. He nodded slightly and said, "Then go ahead, we're all listening."
Dong Yexi took a deep breath and said seriously, "Actually, I found that I like men."
The four of them tilted their heads:?
The next second, the expressions on the four people's faces all turned into shock.
Kaga Rika covered her mouth and stammered, "You're kidding... Xi, you, you, how could you possibly like a man?" Her voice broke at the end of her words.
Fukamizu Suemiya said with an unsteady breath, "Yeah, you don't look like that at all... How did you come to that conclusion?"
Ichiro Sugii began to doubt his life, his eyes full of disbelief.
Dong Yexi took a deep breath and began his performance.
"In fact, I have been very popular since I was a child, and I have always been surrounded by girls of all types."
Shirabu Kenjiro gave him a complicated look. "No wonder he likes collecting sports magazines and even asked me to ask Ushijima-senpai for an autograph. It seems he has other motives!" Also, wasn't he really showing off?
Higashino continued, "Because I was so popular among the girls, I was even ostracized by the boys in my class for a while."
Kaga Rika and Fukamizu Suemi nodded repeatedly. Even now, there are still many boys in the school who secretly say bad things about Xi!
"So I spent my adolescence surrounded by girls."
Shirabu Kenjiro: Is this guy really not showing off?
"Then I realized that the girls were very cute and wonderful, and I couldn't bear to see them get hurt! So I started doing my best to take care of their emotions."
Kaga Rika and Fukamizu Suemi nodded again. That's right, Xi is gentle with every girl and can provide emotional value.
"But as time went on, I found that my hobbies seemed to have become the same as girls'. Not only did I start to like cute, beautiful, or furry things, but I would also unconsciously look at strong men..." Dong Yexi paused and swallowed (Ugh, I did my best to stay alive!), "Gradually, when I saw the naked bodies of male models in magazines, I would uh..." He tried his best to keep his expression from distorting.
What does face matter? What matters is staying alive!
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