Chapter 199 Everything is clear
The system prompt sounded in Wen Nan's mind soon -
9527: [The system's key information scanning and detection program has been started for you. Please wait...]
Xu Dongsheng was confused and let the president hold his wrist tightly and put it in front of his eyes. He had no idea what was going on.
At this moment, in front of Wen Nan, where Xu Dongsheng could not see, a square window opened. Like scanning a QR code, it completely scanned Xu Dongsheng's palm from the fingertips to the palm and then to the wrist.
9527: [Scanning completed, key information being checked...]
9527: [Testing completed! Congratulations to the contestants! The murder weapon in this case has been successfully found! ]
9527: [Congratulations! The branch storyline has been updated to 100% completion! ]
9527: [Congratulations to the contestant! You have obtained the exclusive reward for the branch storyline "Who killed Xueying" - 100 attribute points.]
9527: [In this branch story, since the murder weapon is unique, we accept the sharing of results. Do you want to share your results? ]
A series of system prompts kept appearing in Wen Nan's mind.
Xu Dongsheng looked at the strange smile on the president's face, and saw that the countdown for the task in front of him had entered the last ten seconds. He couldn't help but said, "President, what on earth is going on—"
He was halfway through asking his question when he suddenly heard a prompt from the system confirming the shared results in his mind, and then a prompt popped up indicating that the side quest was completed.
Xu Dongsheng was completely dumbfounded. He stared at his palm in disbelief, turning it over and over again.
The president just scanned his hand, and the mission was accomplished? In other words...
"I, I, I, I am the murder weapon?! How, how is this possible?!" He was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of his head. "I killed Jiang Xueying? Impossible! I don't remember anything at all! Did someone possess me?"
Wen Nan shook his head helplessly.
In this side quest, there is a very important misleading information——
The Xueying in the mission title was not the housekeeper Jiang Xueying who they saw lying on the ground.
Once this is confirmed, this side quest becomes very, very simple.
From the moment they stepped into Blizzard Villa, Jiang Xueying told them that they could simply call her Xiaoxue, and the natives of the villa also called her Xiaoxue.
If so, why is the side quest not called "Who killed Xiaoxue" but "Who killed Xueying"? Because this Xueying is not Xiaoxue.
So, who is Xueying? This story begins when Wen Nan used his mind-reading ability for the first time in this villa.
For the first time, Wen Nan used his mind-reading ability on the head chef Xiaoji. Xiaoji's inner voice was a soothing love song "So You Are Here Too".
At that time, Wen Nan thought that the other party was brainwashed by this love song, so she kept playing the song on repeat in her heart, which resulted in Wen Nan only being able to hear her tone-deaf voice.
However, not long ago, Xiao Huang and Wen Nan went to the kitchen together and found the lighter with music box function in the secret compartment under the sofa cushion in Xiao Ji's room. Wen Nan's previous speculation was overturned.
The song playing in the music box was "So You Are Here Too", and this was the true voice that Wen Nan heard at that time.
Why wasn't Xiaoji brainwashed by the music box and singing the song in his heart, but the sound of the music box was what Wen Nan heard using his mind reading ability?
Because what was played in this music box was not the original song, but the tone-deaf rap version!
Even the points of being out of tune and breaking the sound are exactly the same. It is impossible for anyone to simulate the out of tune and breaking the sound so accurately when playing the song on repeat in their mind.
If someone must think that it is not impossible to play the song in a loop in his mind (because after all, there are divine songs like Burn My Calories), then Wen Nan has two other pieces of evidence to further confirm this speculation:
First of all, it was the maid Xiao Huang’s inner voice, the “whooshing” sound of breathing and the “gurgling” sound. Wen Nan didn’t understand what it was at first.
But the moment he found Xu Dongsheng, Wen Nan was sure - it was the fat orange dog in front of him, which was a circle bigger than a wolf, sleeping with its belly facing up, making the snoring sound.
In other words, when selecting Chef Xiaoji as the target of the skill, Wen Nan heard the sound of the music box lighter in the shape of the female war god, and after selecting the maid Xiaohuang, he heard the voice of the cat Xiao Y.
If this is the first time entering this game world, it may be difficult to accept, but after experiencing the last copy, this situation is not difficult to understand -
This is actually very similar to the soul puppets or characters controlled by soul threads in the previous instance. Xiaoji and the music box, Xiao Huang and the orange cat, for some reason or a special item, are bound together, their souls merge (or swap), causing Wen Nan's mind reading to be unable to locate correctly.
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If this is the case, Wen Nan made a bold guess -
The housekeeper Jiang Xueying also did a similar binding, and what was her real body? It was the broken long-necked vase.
Wen Nan rushed back to the restaurant entrance and saw that the bottom of the remaining vase was printed with the word "Jing". As a pair, the bottom of the other broken vase was most likely printed with the word "Ying".
Xueying is the name of the broken long-necked vase.
In this way, the title of this side quest can be translated as: 'Who broke the long-necked snowflake porcelain vase?'
The answer is obvious. Of course it was Xu Dongsheng, the reckless guy, who pushed him down with his restless little hands.
When scanning Xu Dongsheng's palm, the side quest was shown to be completed, which confirmed Wen Nan's guess.
This is also why Jiang Xueying suddenly got angry when Xu Dongsheng almost broke the vase on the table during the meal. This is also why Jiang Xueying repeatedly emphasized in the house rules she made that people were not allowed to touch the snowflake porcelain.
Similarly, this also explains why there were no external injuries on Jiang Xueying's body - her death was because her body, the long-necked vase called "Xueying", was broken, and it was not because the housekeeper herself was attacked.
By this time, everything was clear.
Wen Nan suddenly understood why the reward for this side quest was so small.
One reason is that if you guess the hidden meaning behind the question, it would be too easy to find the murder weapon.
In addition, there is one more thing. Once this side quest is solved, their first main quest will be solved! (End of this chapter)
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