Chapter 98
"I thought I was lucky to be alive, but it turns out the body is looking for all of us." Yang Pei finally spoke, "I was looked for last night when I went to the bathroom."
Qiu Shurong nodded. "It was hiding in the closet. I got so scared that I almost jumped out the window and ran away."
"Me too." Shi Xingxiang whispered, "I didn't expect everyone to be like this."
After saying that, Shi Xingxiang said, "Do you think one of us killed him?"
"That's impossible. Players are bound by the rules of the game and cannot kill each other. Besides, we're all veteran players and know better than anyone that the consequences of killing each other are more dire than the game itself."
Zhang Luqing looked at Shi Xingxiang with a strange look, "I didn't say that."
"What she meant was: If Shen Ji's death is related to the corpse's words, then we can use this to determine who will die. After all, the corpse told everyone that it wanted to kill Shen Ji." Cheng Yiyi whispered, looking at Shi Xingxiang with a hint of confusion in her eyes. "How did you come to the conclusion that we killed Shen Ji?"
Shi Xingxiang's face turned grim. "I'll just say what I want to say. I'll say whatever comes to mind. I don't believe you haven't thought the same thing!"
"That's a corpse. If the corpse comes to you and tells you you're lying, go kill someone else if you don't want to die!"
"It's good that you didn't lie." Shen Yunzhe's voice was casual, as if he was listening to some interesting crosstalk instead of an argument. "As for me, I've never lied, so I don't care about that statement at all. No matter who dies, I won't die."
Everyone stared at Shen Yunzhe with shock in their eyes.
No, 'I never panicked', that in itself is a lie!
This Shen Wei actually told a lie casually!
Isn't he afraid of death?!
"Chen Wei." Zhang Luqing couldn't help it. She frowned and looked at Shen Yunzhe. "If you really lie, you will die. You will die faster if you do this. Be careful."
Shen Yunzhe raised his eyebrows, "Oh, you think I lied?"
"I don't know." Zhang Luqing shook her head. "Anyway, we all need to be careful. This is the fourth game, and it's not going to be easy. We haven't figured out the rules yet, and we don't know how Shen Ji died. After breakfast, let's go around and see if there are any changes."
After saying that, Zhang Luqing turned around and went downstairs.
Watching Zhang Luqing go down, Shi Xingxiang's eyes were filled with displeasure, and he couldn't help but say, "Why are you pretending? Do you really think you are some pure and flawless white lotus?"
"Can the player who can get here be a little white rabbit?"
After she said that, she realized that there were other people here. She glanced at the people around her, then turned around and left, no longer concealing her hostility towards Zhang Luqing.
Yang Pei shook her head, "You three should find a way to deal with Shen Ji's body."
"Whatever you want to deal with, just throw it there. It's never been dealt with before." Qiu Shurong walked downstairs. "Whoever wants to deal with it can do it. I don't care."
So only Shen Yunzhe and Cheng Yiyi were left there.
Shen Yunzhe looked at Shen Ji's body, he thought for a while, "Can it be thrown behind?"
Cheng Yiyi looked at him strangely, "What are you throwing?"
"The body." Shen Yunzhe walked over, opened the window, and looked at the small house behind. "Should we throw the body over there? It's a graveyard after all, and the dead should stay in the graveyard."
As Shen Yunzhe spoke, he suddenly clapped his hands as if he had thought of something.
Then he quickly went downstairs and left the house without eating breakfast. Cheng Yiyi was a little confused. He thought about it and finally gave up breakfast and followed Shen Yunzhe out of the hotel. He saw Shen Yunzhe running along the path with a happy expression to the back of the hotel, which was the cemetery.
Did he discover something?
Cheng Yiyi hurriedly followed and saw Shen Yunzhe take out his cell phone from his pocket.
cell phone?
Shen Yunzhe was seen squatting in the middle of the cemetery, digging a hole in the ground. The dead person in front of the small house next to him was looking at him dimly, but Shen Yunzhe didn't care and just kept digging the hole. Then Cheng Yiyi saw Shen Yunzhe turn on his phone and switch to the live broadcast interface, smiling happily at the phone.
"The dead should stay among the dead. Why didn't I think of that before? I'm sending you home now."
After saying that, Shen Yunzhe threw the phone into the pit and buried it on the spot.
Cheng Yiyi: ...
Live audience: ...
Cheng Yiyi silently took out his mobile phone from his pocket. He was now with Shen Yunzhe, so their live broadcast interface was the same and they had the same audience.
As soon as Cheng Yiyi opened the live broadcast interface, she saw the barrage of comments on the screen.
[What the hell? We didn't provoke him, did we?]
[He's giving us a burial ceremony?!]
[Oh my god, why isn't his game difficulty higher than 10?! His game difficulty should be 100! He should be killed by ghosts the moment he appears!]
[He has nothing to do? What does it mean that players are not doing their tasks properly in the game field and come to provoke us?]
"You should thank me." Shen Yunzhe patted the dirt off his body. "I'm helping you rest in peace. The dead should be buried in the ground to remove the resentment of the ghosts in you. Birth, old age, sickness and death are so common. Why do you have nothing better to do than to be a spectator? Quickly, your souls will fly away and disperse."
"Never mind, no need to thank me. This is what I should do."
The barrage of comments fell silent for a moment, and then more intense insults emerged. Cheng Yiyi quickly turned off the screen of her phone and put it in her pocket.
He was so afraid that Shen Wei would see his phone interface and bury his phone as well.
Shen Yunzhe was very happy after burying his phone. He walked over and seemed to want to go back for breakfast, but at this moment, a child next to him came over and grabbed the corner of Shen Yunzhe's clothes. Shen Yunzhe lowered his head and saw that it was a little boy wearing gray clothes and his eyes were surprisingly black.
The little boy opened his mouth towards Shen Yunzhe, revealing his dark, tongueless mouth.
"What do you want to say?" Shen Yunzhe asked him in a good mood, "I can lip read."
The little boy closed his mouth, and soon opened and closed it, as if he was saying something, but because he had no tongue, his breath sounded very strange. Cheng Yiyi didn't understand at all. He subconsciously looked at Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe was looking at the little boy seriously, as if he really understood.
After talking like this for a few minutes, the little boy shut his mouth and pointed at the people around him. Cheng Yiyi looked in the direction he pointed and was almost scared to take two steps back.
The dead people in front of countless small houses around stood up and opened their mouths towards Shen Yunzhe and the others. There was no tongue in their dark mouths.
"So that's how it is." Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Okay, I understand."
The little boy stepped back and returned to his little house. The remaining dead men also shut their mouths and returned to their original positions. They squatted down again, exactly the same as before.
Cheng Yiyi asked Shen Yunzhe, "Do you really understand?"
"They can understand most of it. I guess Yang Pei and Qiu Shurong also told them when they came. It's a pity they can't understand it."
"What did he say?" Cheng Yiyi was curious.
"You can't lie, you can't go to the temple, you have to tell the truth. They didn't lie, that's about it."
Cheng Yiyi was puzzled. "Just to tell you that they didn't lie but died?"
"Yes." Shen Yunzhe smiled and said, "He said they were all falsely accused and that they had never lied. Yet, some people still said they had lied. In the end, they were all killed by having their tongues cut out, regardless of whether they were old or young. Many of them died, but there were even more who 'lied.'"
"So, most of the town is dead and buried here."
Cheng Yiyi quickly grasped the key point, "False accusation?"
"Let's go find it after dinner. There must be a false accusation site here, and there's also an executioner who specializes in cutting people's tongues." Shen Yunzhe walked back. "If we find the false accusation site, we might be able to find the records. Then, we can follow the clues to find the background story and identify the medium."
"Ah..." Shen Yunzhe suddenly stopped.
Cheng Yiyi was startled. He quickly looked around with vigilance, "What's wrong? What happened?!"
"I want to eat watermelon." Shen Yunzhe said: "Red flesh and green skin, it looks good!"
Cheng Yiyi felt that she had absolutely no way to deal with the person in front of her. He had been an actor for so many years and had seen a lot of things in the world, but he had never seen anyone who suddenly changed the subject like him.
Pulling Shen Yunzhe back to the hotel, Cheng Yiyi pressed Shen Yunzhe down on her seat, placed breakfast in front of him, and then Cheng Yiyi began to talk about what she had just gained.
When they heard that Shen Yunzhe could lip read, they looked at Shen Yunzhe in confusion, but then they remembered that he was a forensic doctor and immediately relaxed their brows.
It makes sense that the police can lip read.
He was so picky that he barely ate a bite of his meal. When the front desk came to collect the plates, Shen Yunzhe looked at him and asked, "Do you have any watermelon?"
The front desk ignored him and continued collecting the plates.
"I'm the guest, you're the waiter, you have to serve me." Shen Yunzhe continued to ask: "Watermelon, do you have any watermelon?"
"This is a playground, where did the watermelon come from?" Qiu Shurong was also helpless, "Chen Wei, are you really a forensic doctor? Why are you different from the police officer I remember?"
"Forensic pathologists are human beings, and police officers are human beings too. What do you care what I look like?" Shen Yunzhe rested his hand on his chin.
Everyone looked at each other, and finally stopped talking.
To be honest, they didn't want Shen Wei to die too early, because Shen Wei was a forensic doctor and a policeman. Not long after they came here, they realized that Shen Wei had keen observation skills beyond theirs. Even though his behavior was strange, he discovered everything he should have discovered.
There are far more benefits for Shen Wei to be alive than to be dead, not to mention... he is a policeman.
While they were talking, the receptionist had already left with the tray. Shen Yunzhe did not insist, and the people present were ready to find the point of false accusation.
Just then, Shi Xingxiang spoke up, "Do you all believe him?"
"Is there really a police officer like him?"
Everyone looked at Shi Xingxiang in surprise. Even Qiu Shurong frowned. "Oh my god, why didn't you tell me before that you didn't believe him?"
"I just think there's no other police officer as crazy as him." Shi Xingxiang stared at Shen Yunzhe. "And he said he can lip-read, so he can lip-read? None of us can. Even if he can, what if what he tells us is fake?"
"I don't think there's any false accusation here!"
"We come from all corners of the world and don't know each other, but this is a game field. Players need to complete quests, and we need to return alive. Therefore, we must trust and help each other." Zhang Luqing stared at Shi Xingxiang. "How could you, a player in your fourth game, not know this?"
"What the hell do you mean?!"
Shi Xingxiang snorted coldly, "Sounds nice, but do players trust each other in the gaming field? Are you kidding me?"
"I won't waste my time on something like this!"
After saying that, Shi Xingxiang turned around and left.
As the person under suspicion, Shen Yunzhe watched her leave as if he was watching a show, without even saying a word in rebuttal.
Chen Ji died, Shi Xingxiang left, and there were five of them left, so they split into two teams. One team went to look for possible false accusations, and the other team went to the temple mentioned before. Shen Yunzhe and Yang Pei were grouped together to look for the false accusations, while Zhang Luqing took the others to the temple.
Yang Pei is a talkative person. She kept chattering to Shen Yunzhe all the way. Even if Shen Yunzhe ignored her, she could still continue to entertain herself.
"Is this really a false accusation?" Yang Pei looked around as she walked.
The area around the hotel is very small, to ensure that they don't spread out too far. Most playgrounds are like this. This place is more of a tourist attraction than a small town. Not to mention a town, it's not even a village.
"Yes." Shen Yunzhe answered. He walked to a shop with his hands behind his back. There was a man standing at the door of the shop.
The man stood there indifferently, and when he saw Shen Yunzhe coming over, he just looked at him coldly.
"We tried to talk to them before, but they completely ignored us," Yang Pei said. "We tried again and again, and almost burned their store down, but they still acted like this."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him. Yang Pei saw Shen Yunzhe put away the smile on his face and became silent in an instant.
He deadpanned, "I want to report someone who lied in Real Town."
The expression of the person at the store door changed instantly. Yang Pei could clearly see that the man's face was filled with fear. He fell to the ground in panic and tried to crawl into the store, but was stepped on by Shen Yunzhe's leg. He kept kicking and hitting, but Shen Yunzhe held him down effortlessly.
Shen Yunzhe's voice was strangely ethereal. He said, "Didn't you hear me? I said I was going to report it."
"Who can handle it?"
The man struggled and finally pointed to a place for Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe looked in the direction he pointed and saw a house. Shen Yunzhe let go of his feet, and the man crawled into the room and closed the door with a click.
Shen Yunzhe put his hands in his pockets and faced forward, "Found it."
Yang Pei was stunned.
Without paying any more attention to the place, they walked to the house. It was just an ordinary house with no one inside. But what caught people's attention was a box standing at the door with three words written on it: 'Opinion Box'.
"Suggestion box..." Yang Pei's eyes were complicated. "Isn't this a must-have at tourist attractions?"
"Could it be that this suggestion box is a false accusation point?"
"You'll know if you take a look." Shen Yunzhe picked up a piece of wire from the side and opened the lock in two or three moves. Yang Pei was stunned for a moment, then told herself that it was normal for the police to be able to open the lock.
Yes, that's normal, even though he is just a forensic doctor.
The suggestion box was full. When Shen Yunzhe opened it, white papers overflowed instantly. They could see that the papers were quite old and bore traces of time.
They randomly flipped open a few sheets of white paper, and on them were accusations written in various handwritings.
[Xianglian lied, she doesn't have a husband at all! ]
[Gossip! She talks bad about others every day! She has a dirty mouth and lies every day!]
[How dare this bachelor cheat on my daughter? He deserves to die!]
The landlord refused to rent the house to me, saying he needed it for himself, but I knew he didn't want to rent it to me. What a lying landlord!
[Meng Xiaoxifu's family has no money at all. She is lying to us, telling us that her family is rich. How despicable!]
[The village chief is also lying! His son never went abroad, he went to jail!]
The sharp malice in his heart made Yang Pei's breath stop.
Human beings are animals that lie. They may tell a little lie at some time or another, perhaps to cover up the truth, embarrassment, or exaggerate. This is normal, but in this real town, these are not allowed and must be reported, so the suggestion box is full of such words.
Just then, Yang Pei heard Shen Yunzhe laugh. She looked at Shen Yunzhe strangely, but found that he was holding a piece of white paper in his hand.
This piece of white paper was obviously different from the old paper in the suggestion box. It was very new, and the teeth were very clear when it was torn off. Yang Pei had seen this kind of paper in hotels. It was the paper that was provided in every room. At that time, she even wondered why hotel rooms were equipped with paper and pens.
Yang Pei leaned over and saw the contents on the paper.
[Chen Ji lied. He entered the temple but claimed he didn't.]
Yang Pei's face turned pale instantly. She stared at the paper and then looked at Shen Yunzhe.
"Is that what I thought it meant?"
"Someone wrote down Shen Ji's lies on a piece of paper and put it in the suggestion box! But this is a false accusation site, and anyone who is put in there will die!"
"Calm down, calm down, you're being too loud." Shen Yunzhe said, "At least we know why Shen Ji died, right?"
Yang Pei's face was ugly, "It's not this problem, Shen Wei, how can you be so calm!"
"This thing is here, which means: there is someone among us who wants to kill the player. He can kill Shen Ji or all of us. Just put this accusation note into this suggestion box!"
Shen Yunzhe narrowed his eyes slightly, "Then let's find out who opened the suggestion box, okay?"
"How could anyone admit it! Oh right, we can ask everyone to write so we can compare the traces, and we can also find out what paper was lost in everyone's room!"
Shen Yunzhe silently took out a stack of papers from his pocket and said, "Okay, let's compare them."
Yang Pei's voice stopped abruptly. She looked at the paper in Shen Yunzhe's hand blankly. It took her a while to remember that this was the agreement they signed at the door of the hotel when they first arrived.
She, she fell silent.
"When did you take this away?"
"Ten minutes after Yingbin died." Shen Yunzhe waved the papers in his hand like a proud child showing off his treasure. "I went to get them after seeing that guy was dead. These things are signed by all of us. They are very good evidence."
"It would be bad if the body was destroyed."
Yang Pei... Yang Pei began to mourn from the bottom of her heart for the player who wrote the false accusation note.
Who would have thought that Shen Yunzhe would steal this thing back ten minutes after Yingbin died, and keep it with him all the time. This thing is indeed the best evidence. It is signed by everyone together. Once the names are put out, no one can deny it.
Is this the strength of the police? !
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