"He Qixuan said he heard Li Hui snoring before he fell asleep, which means Li Hui was already asleep at that time. So, how can a sleeping person prove that his roommate was still in the room?"
Qi Mi stared at them. "Similarly, Mao Xiang and Cao Mingze both fell asleep, so how can you prove that the other was in the room at the time? Not to mention Xu Wei and Lin Fengsong, who have no evidence... So your mutual evidence doesn't stand up to scrutiny."
Qi Mi shattered the confident alibis of several people with just a few words.
After the suspicion was evenly divided, these people hung their heads in silence.
Lin Fengsong and Xu Wei, who had been unable to defend themselves before, finally seized the opportunity and started complaining:
"Exactly. They're all asleep, so who can prove anything? Even if they go out, they might not know."
"You've been talking about us for so long, but in the end, aren't you the same suspect as us?"
At this moment, Mao Xiang straightened up and pointed at Qi Mi: "Everyone, something's not right. I just figured out something. If the murderer is among us, then Qi Mi can't escape either! We've been led by this guy by the nose since just now!"
Only then did everyone react.
Qi Mi nodded thoughtfully, "Yes, it's possible that I lied to you and said I didn't come to the B&B, then secretly went there and killed someone. That's a reasonable suspicion."
"Right? You're still suspecting this and that, but I think you're the most suspicious!" Mao Xiang said excitedly. "You say you didn't go to the B&B, but who can prove it? What if you did? What if you killed someone and got away, pretending nothing happened and playing tricks on us? Don't you agree?!"
"Yes! Reasonable suspicion!" Li Hui agreed.
With Li Hui's mass base, Mao Xiang picked up his style, stroking the large gold chain around his neck and staring at Qi Fan: "Tell me, what's your alibi? You didn't go on the graduation trip with us that night. What were you doing?"
"Didn't I tell you guys I was busy renting a room?" Qi Mi pointed at the ground and said, "This room was booked that day."
Mao Xiang: "Who asked you about the day? I asked you about the night. Can anyone prove where you were?"
"No, I was the only one cleaning up in this room that night, and there's no one to testify."
"See, it's just as expected." Mao Xiang looked as if he had seen through Qi Mi, and his fingers played with the big gold chain around his neck.
Feeling like there was no telling when this suspicion would end, Qi Mi clapped his hands twice to signal everyone's attention: "Everyone is equally suspicious now. What we need to do next is to infer whether the suspicion value of each person is increasing or decreasing."
By this time, Mao Xiang and Li Hui had already decided to hold on to Qi Mi, and immediately followed up with, "Then let's discuss your suspicion level first."
Qi Mi paused, then stood up. "Okay, then I'll start by explaining my [impossibility]—first of all, I don't have a car. How am I supposed to get to the B&B in the suburbs at night? The real estate agent back then can prove that it was past eight in the evening when we parted ways after dinner, and it was already raining. It was pouring rain that night, and it's unlikely any driver would take me so far out to the suburbs. Even if there was, then I want to ask, if I was going to kill someone, why didn't I prepare a knife in advance, but had to use the one in the B&B's living room? Furthermore, after I killed someone, I took a driver's car back to the city in the middle of the night. Do you think that's possible?"
"Why is it impossible? Everything is possible!" Mao Xiang and Li Hui said almost in unison.
Qi Fan: "..."
Qi Mi was too lazy to pay attention to these two people with strange minds. He turned to look at Xu Wei: "What do you think? Can I avoid all of your eyes and ears, kill someone without a weapon, and then take a taxi back to the city?"
Xu Wei frowned and smacked his lips in confusion: "It seems, it sounds a bit complicated and a bit troublesome to operate."
He Qixuan also felt that Qi Mi was the least likely suspect and therefore excluded him from consideration for the time being. He then proceeded to state his reasons why he couldn't be the murderer:
"First of all, I have a severe phobia of pointed objects. The sight of knives, chopsticks, or anything like that makes me dizzy. My psychiatrist can confirm this." He opened his phone and pulled up an authoritative psychological report. "Of course, I think you've probably noticed this too. Unless I don't wear glasses, anything with a pointy object makes me dizzy... And there's another thing: I'm afraid of blood. I don't know if you remember."
He Qixuan never thought that the weakness that he had always hated would one day become important evidence to clear his suspicion.
Everyone knows that he is afraid of sharp objects and is afraid of blood, let alone killing someone with a knife. That day, He Qixuan fainted after discovering the body and almost died. So from beginning to end, everyone thought he was the least suspicious.
In the following speeches, except for Qi Mi and He Qixuan, no one could explain why. After all, it was late at night, and everyone said they slept, so it was impossible to ask them to prove how they slept.
The situation became deadlocked again.
Qi Mi sighed, drank the lukewarm water in the cup, stood up and went back to the kitchen.
In the midst of the hot steam, he caught a glimpse of the face reflected on the cabinet glass—
Strange, incongruous, angry, his face.
Qi Mi frowned tightly, and his back teeth made a creaking sound... Hearing a sound from behind, he turned around and met Cao Mingze's dark and thin face.
Cao Mingze was obviously stunned for a moment, then after realizing what was happening, he shook the empty cup in his hand twice and grinned, "I'm thirsty, drink some hot water."
Qi Mi took a small step to the side and gave up the thermos next to him.
Cao Mingze came over and poured hot water, making a splashing sound.
"The daughter of the B&B owner back then was your girlfriend, right?"
“!”
Qi Mi's pupils suddenly constricted.
Cao Mingze seemed to have done it on purpose, and his voice was not loud enough so that no one in the living room could hear it. Only Qi Mi could hear this sentence.
The sound of pouring hot water flashed by, and in a daze, Qi Fan thought it was an auditory hallucination.
If Cao Mingze hadn't said another word while drinking water, Qi fans would have really thought it was an auditory hallucination.
"Your girlfriend loves you very much. I told her not to say anything or I would kill you when I get back, and she really didn't say anything..." Cao Mingze rolled the second half of the vague sentence in his mouth and swallowed it with a sip of water.
At this time, Qi Mi's attention was already 100%. Although it was blurry, he still heard the second half of the sentence clearly.
What he heard Cao Mingze say was——
The knife went in without making a sound.
With a clang, the glass in Qi Mi's hand fell to the ground and shattered into pieces in an instant.
When the people in the living room rushed over, Qi Mi seemed to be crazy, grabbing Cao Mingze's collar viciously, pulling it so hard that all the veins on his neck bulged.
The broken glass in his hand was pressed against Cao Mingze's neck, which had been cut by the glass and was bleeding.
Seeing this, several people did not dare to delay for even half a minute and quickly separated the two of them.
"No, what happened to you two?!" Seeing Qi Mi's attitude, Mao Xiang didn't dare to offend him. He put his arm around Cao Mingze's waist and pulled him to the living room.
Qi Mi had no intention of letting him go. He turned around and grabbed Cao Mingze by the back of his neck, his eyes bloodshot as he shouted, "Cao Mingze is the murderer! He killed Qiqi! He is the murderer!"
Cao Mingze was almost suffocated by him and begged for mercy in a hoarse voice: "What are you talking about! I just came to pour some water, how can you say I'm the murderer! Who is Qiqi? Cough cough cough..."
Thanks to the fat man Li Hui's great strength, he pulled Qi Mi's hand away and Cao Mingze was able to catch his breath.
Cao Mingze's face flushed red, and he coughed so hard that his lungs almost burst. "Qi Mi, what's wrong with you? Look carefully, it's me, Lao Cao!"
Qi Mi cursed and was about to step forward when he was stopped by Li Hui.
"I don't know if this guy took the wrong medicine. Hurry and take Lao Cao away!"
Li Hui shouted, and he didn't let go of Qi Mi until Mao Xiang and others pulled Cao Mingze back to the living room. He hurried back to the living room to inquire about the situation.
Xu Wei was hit in the lower back and gritted his teeth, pressing Qi Mi's shoulders: "Oh, my kidneys are not good to begin with, and you...what's wrong? Explain it clearly!"
"Are you all fucking deaf?" Qi Mi shook off his hand and pointed towards the living room. "I said Cao Mingze is a murderer! He killed Qiqi! He just told me that himself!"
He Qixuan and Xu Wei looked at each other: "Who is Qiqi?"
"The daughter of the B&B owner!" Qi Mi paused, his face raging with anger. "Don't tell me you didn't even remember her name!!"
They both: “…”
Qi Mi sneered.
Xu Wei looked at Qi Mi's noisy and laughing face and subconsciously glanced at He Qixuan. He Qixuan was also a little at a loss, not knowing what to say. The two of them just stood there looking at him blankly.
"Have you all forgotten who suggested you go to this B&B?" Qi Mi looked at them with a half-smile, "It was me. I gave you the address of Qiqi's B&B! How could you have forgotten?!"
"At that time, Qiqi and I had just started dating. I was planning to come to you the next day to announce our relationship, but that night... do you know how devastated I was when I learned of Qiqi's death the next day?"
Qi Mi squeezed out these words from between his teeth, his eyes already red.
"Maybe to you, the deaths in that case were just of an unknown B&B owner and his daughter, but to me... that was my girlfriend, the one I was going to marry and spend my life with!" Qi Mi collapsed, clutching his hair and choking with sobs, "That's the person I'm going to take care of for the rest of my life, don't you know?"
During these twelve years, he regretted it all the time.
If I hadn't introduced these people to Qiqi's B&B, would the tragedy have been avoided?
[If Qiqi were still alive, would we have been together? ]
[Maybe you already have a child?]
But no matter how many ideas there are, they are just ideas now.
Kiki died when she was eighteen years old.
He didn't even get to see Kiki for the last time before she passed away.
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