The long narrative, including the ending part that Lin Xiaoman did not see, goes like this.
Shi Yansheng: ...I swung my knife a few times randomly, and then, I ran. I ran back to the hall, calling out for Lao Jiang, all the way to the third floor. I called out several times, but he was already downstairs. We took a different road, so I told him about Jiang Lei, and he was in the car. Then, neither of us dared to leave, so he locked the hall door and took me to the basement. He closed the basement door and propped it up with something. Then, Lao Jiang went into the monitoring room. I was afraid to go in at the door, so he turned off the signal jammer. Then we used our phones to report the death. I didn't know Jiang Lei was dead until you told me. I honestly had no idea. I was really surprised.
Last question.
Question: Did you kill Jiang Lei?
Shi Yansheng: I, I don’t know either… He was the one who choked me first. I was so scared at the time. He was choking me, and I felt so uncomfortable that I almost suffocated. Then, I swung the knife backwards… I, I don’t know either. My mind was blank at the time. I just stabbed back hard, and then he let go. I, I ran away… I really don’t know. I was so scared, sob… Did I kill someone? I, was this self-defense? I, there are still marks on my neck, all bruised. I must have been acting in self-defense, right? I’m not guilty, right? I’m definitely not guilty! !
Q: Please calm down, calm down first, please think carefully again, did you stab him at that time?
Shi Yansheng: I, I really don’t know, I have no idea at all, wuwu… At that time, all I could think about was, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die… I don’t know…
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From a first-person perspective, Lin Xiaoman knew that Shi Yansheng was really frightened. In a society ruled by law, it would be strange for an ordinary person, especially a young girl, to remain calm after witnessing such a murder case with her own eyes, especially when the murderer wanted to kill her!
Lin Xiaoman completely believed that Shi Yansheng attacked instinctively in order to survive. At that time, her head was probably a ball of wool. Apart from fear and survival, there was nothing else in her mind.
Thinking ability and the like were nonsense at that time.
Okay, so there are only two outcomes.
One possibility is: she killed Jiang Lei, and the second possibility is: she did not kill Jiang Lei.
According to various signs, it is obvious that the first situation is the case. Shi Yansheng accidentally killed Jiang Lei due to instinctive resistance.
However, Lin Xiaoman's intuition told her that the truth must not be like this!
After all, if that were the case, what were they for? To decrypt the code and relieve their loneliness?
After returning, Lin Xiaoman clicked on Jiang Shian's information.
Like Shi Yansheng, the interface showed Jiang Shian's relevant transcripts. Just as she was about to read them, Long Jiujiu on the other side walked around Shao Qi in the middle and walked towards her.
With his head supported by his hands and a relaxed expression, Long Jiujiu looked confident.
"You finished watching it so quickly?" Lin Xiaoman asked in surprise when he saw Long Jiujiu coming over.
"My head hurts, I won't watch it!" Long Jiujiu was very willful, and then he said fearlessly, "When it comes to handling cases, Uncle Shao is the professional! Hehe!"
Having always suspected that Shao Qi was from a Jingcha family, Lin Xiaoman subconsciously nodded in agreement.
Yes, with Jingcha here, she doesn’t have to think too much.
This is called: Every profession has its own specialty!
"I found good teammates. I won without doing anything!" Long Jiujiu shook his head and continued to show off.
Without even raising his eyelids, Shao Qi raised his hand, stretched out his slender arm, and gave him a slap on the head (hitting him on the head with his knuckles), saying, "You have to use your brain too!"
"Ouch~" Long Jiujiu howled miserably. His hands, which had been holding the back of his head, immediately hugged his head. His face fell, and he said aggrievedly, "It's wrong for an adult to hit a child."
"Pretending to be young is shameful." Shao Qi's tone was flat, but Lin Xiaoman could hear a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"Humph, I'm very young and still a baby!"
Too lazy to pay attention to the funny Long Jiujiu, Shao Qi stopped talking and continued to concentrate on reading the relevant information on the screen, looking for key clues from a large amount of information.
After humming a few times, Long Jiujiu opened the screen again. With a swipe, he found that as the captain, his system interface had an additional interface showing the current ranking battle status, which was different from Lin Xiaoman and Shao Qi's.
"Oh, three teams of idiots have already been eliminated!" Looking at it, Long Jiujiu was gloating and laughing triumphantly, with a sense of victory.
"Has anyone been eliminated?"
Lin Xiaoman was surprised.
"Yes, there were originally 30 teams participating in the qualifying battle, but now there are only 27. We have passed this first stage!"
"No way, haven't we just entered the decryption phase? How come someone was eliminated?" Lin Xiaoman was very puzzled and looked around while speaking.
Could it be that a fight has already started somewhere where she can't see?
"I guess he was eliminated during the briefing. Maybe... he was just scared silly, so he was ruled out?" Long Jiujiu dragged his chin, assumed a Sherlock Holmes-like posture, and speculated. "My NPC perspective was Sun Yiwen. Honestly, it was a bit scary. My heart was beating like crazy. There's some truth to that saying, 'People can scare people to death.'"
Lin Xiaoman thought it made sense. As Shi Yansheng, she was also frightened when she was pranked.
Although it is just a synchronization of the senses, I have to say that it is still very scary, even more exciting than watching a horror movie.
Maybe the person who was eliminated was just frightened and fainted, and was therefore judged as a failure.
Therefore, the copy's background also has an elimination mechanism.
Lin Xiaoman: Write it down, you will need it for the test in the future.
With a sigh, Long Jiujiu finished speaking and asked the two, "What about you? Do you have a character's perspective? Who is it?"
"Shen Hao, there is not much useful information." Shao Qi replied indifferently, without taking his eyes off his screen.
Shen Hao, one of the participants besides Sun Yiwen.
"Sun Yiwen and Shen Hao are both marginal figures." Lin Xiaoman was a little surprised and murmured, "How are the perspectives of these characters chosen? Is it fixed? Or is it random? If someone draws Jiang Lei, doesn't he witness the truth?"
"It can't be that simple. Each team's three characters should be fixed," Shao Qi analyzed objectively. "In ranked battles, as individual dungeons, we need to ensure a consistent level of difficulty and fair competition. Of course, this is the general case, and there are rare exceptions."
"Been taught a lesson!"
Lin Xiaoman: Keep writing it down. These are all based on experience.
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