Where did you go?
Charlie, who was searching alone in Mu Chen's room, heard Lu Xiaoyao return from outside and slammed the door shut. He turned around and saw Lu Xiaoyao's angry face.
"I got tricked when I went out."
"Did you go and have someone play a trick on you?"
"What kind of talk is that?!" Lu Xiaoyao glared at the speechless Charlie and said, "I'm going to gather information."
"So, judging from your expression, you didn't find out anything, did you? You got played?"
Lu Xiaoyao: "If you really think you can't speak properly, then shut up, hmph!"
"You said you were tricked, so tell me how you were tricked."
Seeing that Lu Xiaoyao was really angry and her eyes were red, Charlie put down what he was doing and let Lu Xiaoyao sit on the sofa to calm down, and asked her what was going on.
Little did Lu Xiaoyao know that what angered her was not being tricked, but Charlie's words, which were like adding fuel to the fire!
"Who's so clueless as to not understand that sharing is a virtue and that unity is strength?"
Seeing that Lu Xiaoyao was still sitting there glaring at him angrily without saying a word, Charlie finally softened his tone and said something that Lu Xiaoyao wanted to hear.
"Yeah, I suggested we exchange information and cooperate, and I told him the information I got from my lunchbox, but Li Yuan actually ignored me!"
"What did I do to you?"
He said, "Does what I think really mean?"
"ha?"
"Right, huh? You're already so confused, so I'm even more confused! What on earth is he talking about? I even asked him what he meant, and he just left without saying a word!" Lu Xiaoyao became more and more angry as she spoke. "Tell me, isn't it his fault?"
Although he didn't think Lu Xiaoyao's approach of revealing all his secrets right away and demanding that she fairly disclose what he knew was particularly good, Li Yuan did seem quite indifferent.
"You went to him to exchange information, why didn't you go to me?"
"You? Didn't we both buy the same boxed lunches?" Lu Xiaoyao didn't think she could get any different information from Charlie at all.
But Charlie's face showed a different meaning, and he said, "However, my lunchbox message is 'This game is not difficult, please enjoy the game.'"
"Huh?"
Lu Xiaoyao had just slumped on the sofa when she heard Charlie's words. She immediately sat up straight and looked at Charlie, asking incredulously, "You're this one? You really are different from me. I told you there was only one murderer here."
"Nonsense." Charlie burst into laughter the moment he heard Lu Xiaoyao's words. "Only one person died, how many murderers could there be?"
After he finished speaking, Charlie's eyes suddenly darkened from an angle that Lu Xiaoyao couldn't see, filled with a light she couldn't understand, and his face twisted for a moment...
"Why did you come out so quickly?"
When Li Yuan returned from using the restroom, after being pestered by Lu Xiaoyao for a long time, he saw Mu Chen standing at the door of Lu Xiaoyao's room.
Previously, they said they would search Lu Xiaoyao's room first.
"There wasn't much in her room except for a black and white photo of her dead husband and her work tools; nothing else was unusual."
Mu Chen shook his head. He had originally thought Lu Xiaoyao's room would be a good reference for reality—it was a complete mess.
But once inside, well, it still follows the character's persona—plain and unremarkable, clean and tidy.
Mu Chen searched even the corners, but found nothing.
"But why did you take so long?"
Mu Chen's suspicious gaze fell on Li Yuan, so Li Yuan told Mu Chen what he had said to Lu Xiaoyao and asked his question: "Why is the information she received the opposite of mine?"
"Because of different purchasing channels."
Mu Chen turned to look at him, a smirk playing on his lips, and asked, "Do you believe the lunchbox you bought yourself, or the lunchbox the other person bought?"
Li Yuan isn't stupid; after all that Mu Chen said, what didn't he understand?
"You mean their boxed meals are fake?"
Mu Chen revealed a knowing smile, but then changed the subject, asking, "How do you know the boxed lunch you bought is genuine? Do you truly believe me, or did you discover that Lu Xiaoyao's information was false—and how did you find out?"
Feeling a chill run down his spine from what the other person said, Li Yuan took two steps back, his back against the cold, solid wall. He stared straight at Mu Chen and asked in a panic, "What do you mean by this?"
"I was just asking, why are you so nervous?" Mu Chen looked at Li Yuan, whose face had turned pale from fright, raised his hand and patted the other's shoulder, only to be glared at by him for a long time.
"Alright, there's still one more room we haven't checked."
After Mu Chen finished speaking, he walked towards Charlie's room. Li Yuan remained leaning against the wall, staring at Mu Chen's back without moving.
Fortunately, he was wearing a light-colored shirt today; otherwise, the sweat stains on his back would have been very noticeable, and if Mu Chen had noticed them, he would have been in a difficult situation to explain himself…
Mingmei sat in the hall, speechless with the fake fan NPC. She was also somewhat bored watching Lu Xiaoyao's live stream.
It's not that Lu Xiaoyao is boring.
Instead, the process of her and Charlie searching the room was quite boring.
The room where Mu Chen, playing the secretary, lived was spotless and tidy, with absolutely no useful discoveries.
With no clues, the two of them even spoke less.
"Huh? What's this?"
The only thing in the room that caught their attention was the laptop that was neither turned off nor had a password. When Lu Xiaoyao and Charlie opened it, a folder caught their eye.
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