Chapter 14 Our Promise 6 The City Flooded
The private room fell silent instantly, even the nostalgic music stopped playing, and the other teachers sat silently in their chairs, clearly agreeing with Xu Long's approach.
When the investigation was conducted, the answers obtained from asking each student separately formed a loop, which was very strange. It was as if a false answer had been passed around the class and, with enough people passing it on, it had convinced the people who came to ask.
This method is very clever. After all, as long as there are more than seven people, the answer will form a chain of evidence on its own, making it impossible for anyone to find a way to break it.
But Xu Long is a physics teacher, and his specialty is arranging electrical wires. Even the most chaotic logic, things he hadn't considered due to worry and fear, he has come to realize the errors after years of review.
“I don’t mean to blame you. Whatever the answer I get today, it won’t be heard outside this room. I’m 56 years old, and I’ll be retiring in three years. Before I leave the education career I love, I want to know one answer,” Xu Long said, choking back tears.
After listening to Xu Long's story, Wu Wangwang immediately connected the ghost story with the current situation—someone was going to be exposed tonight, and the rules of death would begin today.
The drunk student slowly recounted the whole incident in his mind. Combining the sound of water he had heard at the time, he finally made out the indistinct sounds in the water and realized that there was more than one person in the class who was lying.
There was more than one murderer; they covered for each other to manage to deceive everyone.
At this moment, the class monitor couldn't let the homeroom teacher fall silent, so he immediately stood up and went to the left side of the stage, saying, "I was the last person to report to the teacher. I don't really remember anyone before that. It was the day before the disappearance was confirmed. My last report was on Friday morning during PE class. I clearly remember that XX came to tell me that Chu Ping went to dance and Guo Tianyin went to print books."
The student whose name was called stood up awkwardly. He hesitated for a moment, then went up to the class monitor, took the microphone, and said, "I've been confused about this whole thing. The police separated us during their investigation and never gave us an answer. I never expected it to be like this. I only heard it from my deskmate."
People went up on stage one after another, like a game of musical chairs.
The NPCs were nervous, and the players were no less so. Some players even broke out in a cold sweat because none of the players knew the details of what happened back then, and if they were identified, they could only say they didn't know.
Circular identification can evade investigation, but when the investigation is thorough, it will inevitably lead back to the murderer. There were nine murderers back then, and their testimony cleared up the doubts.
The players were different. Because of the note at the beginning, the nine of them guarded each other for more than a month. Only Wu Wangwang and two others still communicated with each other, but they didn't find any useful information. The other six people's hands were shaking.
But no one expected that the first player to be identified would be Wu Wangwang, also known as Fu Mei.
Wu Wangwang paused, slowly raised her eyes, and looked at the many NPCs on the stage. She still didn't know why the ghost had approached her first, didn't know Fu Mei's secret, and didn't know what role Fu Mei played in this murder, or why she was chosen by the ghost to be the first to die.
Everyone turned to stare at Wu Wangwang, as if they were looking at a suspect about to be executed. The hidden malice of anticipation and excitement was completely undisguised.
Fu Mei left no information, yet so many people remember her because after her disappearance, her classmates recalled the incident again and again, leaving a deep impression. The one who forgets is the murderer.
Wu Wangwang slowly stood up. Jiaojiao and Du Luo beside her both looked like they were about to collapse. They didn't know how things had developed like this, and they didn't know if the two missing people were ghosts. But Wu Wangwang was their partner. If something happened to Wu Wangwang, they were afraid they wouldn't be able to save their lives either.
The tense atmosphere made everyone in the private room hold their breath. The players were going crazy. No matter who Wu Wangwang pointed out now, they would all die here. The NPCs clearly remembered what happened back then. If they were wrong, it would be no different from self-destruction.
Revealing you're not the real person in a dungeon has consequences depending on the NPC's nature, but the results are often not pleasant. With so many NPCs here, you're guaranteed to die.
Wu Wangwang looked around and was certain that she was the first one targeted by the ghost. Fu Mei's secret was very important, extremely important. She had to risk getting this secret in order to possibly crack the truth of this dungeon and thus pass the level smoothly. It was better not to die if possible, otherwise it would be troublesome if others knew that she was not going to die.
“I lied. My answer back then was made up, so I don’t remember what I said at all,” Wu Wangwang replied calmly.
The entire private room erupted in uproar.
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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]
Wu Wangwang: Sometimes being human is quite tiring. Why can't people come back to life after they die? It's so troublesome. [Chin resting on hand]
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