Chapter 102 Blizzard Villa (5) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
While the analysis on the barrage was going on, the guests in the castle started arguing again.
Ling Dai, one of the explorers, was sorting out the information in the architect's room, trying to find clues.
While she was still sorting, a hand suddenly reached out and took away a piece of paper in front of her.
"Yo, this group." The voice sounded familiar.
"What?" Ling Dai turned around in confusion and found that the person was actually Li Si.
Those were the things found on Jian Zhu's desk. When he died, these things were piled up in a mess on the desk. It can be seen that he must have been looking through the information in them before he died.
Ling Dai thought there might be some information in it, so she went over to sort it out.
"This group..." Li Si flipped through the information left by Jian Zhu, and suddenly looked at Zheng Tan with interest, "Doesn't anyone know? The person Detective Zheng is accused of murder is the vice president of this company."
"Jian Zhu is actually their architect?" He raised the information in his hand, "Detective, you didn't come out with him on purpose, did you?"
Jian Zhu received the architect of the group of victims that Zheng Tan accused of murder?
Hearing his voice, several guests who were still glaring at each other also looked over.
Wang En was exposed that Zheng Ju beside him was his lover, so he simply stopped pretending and sneered, "No wonder Zheng Tan concealed the murder charge when you introduced yourself. It turns out that Jian Zhu was the designer of this company from the beginning. Isn't your motive for murder much more serious than Zhang San and Li Si's?"
"I have never understood Jian Zhu's work!" Zheng Tan said unhappily.
"You even know whether he has a family history of illness in his medical examination report. How could you not check his work out of occupational disease?" Ling Dai thought for a moment and said objectively, "The project Jian Zhu took on was for the group that had framed you before. In this case, don't you have a reason to kill him? You want to kill the architect to make the group's project invalid and suffer heavy losses, so you deliberately chose him as your travel partner."
Now, all the clues were thrown back on Zheng Tan.
The situation is unprecedentedly chaotic.
Then, it can also be a little more confusing.
Fu Gui, who had been silent the whole time, frowned and said, "Impossible."
"I know the group you're talking about," he raised his chin and pointed at the body on the ground. "The project that Jian Zhu took was actually a money laundering project. If Zheng Tan wants to make the company suffer huge losses, then killing the architect is the stupidest way."
"Why?" Zheng Ju couldn't help but ask.
"Because if the architect died, the building would become an unfinished one, which would make it easier to explain the unknown amounts of money," Ronghua looked at her with a complicated expression, "He was killed, most likely because an unfinished building is easier to launder money than a completed one, so in order to avoid problems with the subsequent accounts, such an architect must die."
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone suddenly realized the problem.
The voices of everyone floated across the barrage:
[Could there be a killer here who accepted the mission to kill the architect? ]
[Architect, you are so miserable, architect——]
[Architect, why are you making enemies everywhere? Architect——]
[Did the architect promise his girlfriend that they would get married after finishing this job before he left the country? How did he get so many buffs? ]
[Everyone here seems like they could kill him, and there's even a killer among them.]
[The stacked killing book belongs to yes. 】
In the eerie silence, Bai Jinshu held his chin and tilted his head to look at Yun Guang beside him: "Who do you think is the murderer?"
“It’s hard to say…” Yun Guang lowered his voice, thought for a few seconds and shook his head, “The deceased is inextricably linked to everyone. Everyone has a reason to kill the architect, and everyone has a reason, but it’s precisely because no one has a reason.”
This is easy to understand.
If the deceased had a conflict with only one person in a group of people, then this person is the most likely suspect. Of course, there is a possibility that the murderer is actually someone else, but by looking among the most suspicious people, there is a high probability that a breakthrough in the case can be found.
But the problem now is that each of these people has had considerable conflict with the deceased, and the suspicion among them is equal.
The Blizzard Villa mode is a very subtle detective mode. In this mode, when the guests trapped in the villa lose contact with the outside world, if there is no highly authoritative figure such as the police among them, then when a case occurs, it is extremely difficult to guide the suspects to cooperate with the investigation.
In the former case, there is only one person who is the most suspicious. Then, regardless of whether there is an authoritative figure to guide him or not, the suspected person will, under pressure or coercion from everyone, voluntarily reveal more clues to help the investigation of the case out of the need to prove himself and the need to collect evidence from other innocent guests involved.
But now everyone seems to be a suspect, and the only detective qualified to lead the case had actually been cleared of murder charges just a few days ago.
This leads to a very delicate balance -
Everyone has secrets. When others try to explore their secrets in order to investigate a case, due to the lack of external coercion and guidance from authoritative figures, they will not reveal the truth during the investigation. Instead, they will testify against others in order to protect themselves because everyone present is equally suspicious as them.
There is a very vivid adjective to describe this situation, which is "passing the buck".
Now all these suspicious guests are passing the buck to each other.
There seems to be something fishy about the shareholding ratio of Ronghua and Fu Gui. Without external pressure, they would not admit that they knew the dead architect was a small shareholder of the company, so they implicated Wang En.
Wang En was already married or engaged, and came here for vacation with his lover. Without external pressure, he would not admit that Zheng Ju was not his wife, so he brought up Zhang San and Li Si.
Zhang San and Li Si were so close to having "we have a secret" written on their faces that they would not reveal their secrets without external pressure, so they brought up Zheng Tan.
Everyone's chain of suspicion formed a closed loop.
In just a few minutes, these two sentences from Ronghua and Fu Gui had caused Wang En to start yelling at his cell phone again, and it turned into a melee again.
During the fight, Ronghua and Fu Gui, a couple, would make sarcastic remarks from time to time, and then they would instantly unite to fight back when others pointed their spearheads at them. Zheng Ju would gently try to mediate, saying that Ronghua was kind-hearted and a good man, and then saying that Zheng Tan was a very famous detective.
Guan Hongyan was outside. While the natives were not paying attention, she exchanged for a handful of melon seeds. She cracked them while watching the show and poked Xu Zichen: "Do you want some melon seeds?"
Xu Zichen grabbed a handful very politely and said, "Yes."
These two people carried out their slacking off to the end, and they showed off in great detail during the evidence collection session just now. Then, they were naturally invited out together with He Ronghua, Fu Gui, Zheng Ju and Wang En.
Just now a group of people were arguing in the corridor, and Guan Hongyan was watching the show in the VIP seat with a handful of melon seeds.
Zheng Tan said that the architect was a small shareholder of Rong Group, and Rong Hua and Fu Gui, who held the largest stake in Rong Group, were not in harmony and were currently discussing divorce without telling the shareholders' meeting.
Guan Hongyan: “Wow.”
Fu Gui said that Wang En already had a wife, and Zheng Ju, whom he brought out on vacation, was his lover.
Guan Hongyan: “Wow.”
Wang En said that they did not go out at all last night. The brick and stone structure of the castle has good sound insulation, so the sound the secretary heard should be the loud noise caused by a heavy object hitting.
Guan Hongyan: “Wow.”
She was still complaining in the morning that the rules and mechanisms of Blizzard Villa appeared too quickly. She didn't have time to see the sunrise before she found that the sun had disappeared. Then a blizzard started outside and it was so cold that people could be frozen to death. This space was not friendly at all to people like her who came here for vacation.
As a result, after a breakfast, Guan Hongyan stood in the corridor, exchanged handfuls of melon seeds, and leaned against the wall to watch the show under the complicated gazes of the other exploration team members.
Although these high-end team members said at the beginning that they were here for vacation, the feeling that they were looking for clues while their teammates were watching the show really made people feel damn unbalanced.
The two even made bets on nothing.
Guan Hongyan: "Wang En, definitely Wang En, murders caused by passion are too common."
"Wang En's motive for love murder is not enough," Xu Zichen grabbed a handful of melon seeds, "If he just took a photo of him and his lover, there is no need to kill him. If there is no other choice, why not go to his house and ask him to delete all the photos? I think it was Ronghua and Fu Gui who did it."
"These two people and the secretary don't look like they want to kill anyone." Guan Hongyan said casually.
"According to what you said, it doesn't look like Wang En." Xu Zichen said, half leaning against the wall.
None of them could convince the other, and they all turned to look at Lu Changfeng beside them.
"Do you think it's that couple or Wang En and his lover?"
Lu Changfeng: "I..."
The two people in front of him were his sister Yan and brother Xu who would most likely become a team member in the future. Lu Changfeng was stuck for a few seconds: "I think it's Zhang San and Li Si?"
Guan Hongyan glanced at her.
Lu Changfeng shrank his neck.
Fortunately, his brother Ao appeared and saved him in time.
As Yun Guang walked, he performed a miracle of blocking the sound, but this time the sound was not blocked to prevent the natives from hearing what they were saying as before, this time it was mainly to prevent them from hearing what the natives were saying.
Nothing else.
It’s really... too noisy.
The castle was originally quite empty, and if one spoke loudly there would be an echo. Moreover, among the nine guests, Ronghua, Fu Gui and Wang En were the ones who tended to raise their voices when they got excited. One person who could speak well was worth five hundred ducks.
Now there are fifteen hundred ducks quarreling.
Yun Guang held his forehead with his hand as he felt a headache, and quickly chose to use the miracle.
Seeing Skao and Yun Guang coming out of the room, Guan Hongyan waved her hands happily: "You guys are out!"
"Eating melon seeds?"
“…No,” Yun Guang choked and couldn’t help saying, “Hongyan, Dave would cry if he knew you ate sunflower seeds as melon seeds.”
"Who is Dave?" Guan Hongyan was puzzled.
"I think... it should be the farmer in the game Plants vs. Zombies." Bai Jinshu walked out from behind him and motioned Lu Changfeng to come over.
"Oh, we don't have this game. Let him come and beat me if he dares." Guan Hongyan exchanged another one nonchalantly. "Skao, do you want to eat some sunflower seeds?"
"Thank you." Bai Jinshu took the melon seeds and thanked very naturally.
“You’re welcome,” Guan Hongyan said happily as someone came to crack her melon seeds. “Skao, the space you chose is really interesting!”
"You can ride horses, go boating, and play golf," she said while gesturing. "Although you can't watch the sunrise, watching this bustle is much more interesting than watching the sunrise."
There was a line across the bullet screen:
【To be honest, it is true. 】
【This is no better than the sunrise. 】
[Don't mention it, this is more interesting than the eight o'clock drama. ]
[Because the eight o'clock show is a play, but this is real (smoke)]
"Is it interesting?" Bai Jinshu curled his lips and looked meaningfully at the guests who were still arguing. "It's nothing now. There will be more interesting things later."
Just as Yun Guang said.
All the guests in this space are inextricably linked to each other, and these people seem to be easily irritated and easily come into conflict with each other.
He had been annoyed by Skao's bad mood the whole morning, but these people seemed to be even more annoyed than him. Once they came across information about murder and their own secrets, they would start to bite each other very actively.
Bai Jinshu's method of fanning the flames in the morning could only be described as crude. In just a few words, he would pick out the key points and attack one of them. But no matter how he fanned the flames, the anger of these people would be directed at him for a short time, and then return to other aborigines in a voluntary or forced way.
These people seem to target their own kind much more than the exploration team members.
He tried many times, but the result was always the same. No matter what he said, these people's attention would always shift to attacking each other, and as the argument went on they would simply ignore him, the instigator, until he added fuel to the fire again, and then the process would repeat itself.
Do they really not know each other?
The morning was almost over. Why didn't the owner of this castle show up even after someone died?
Why was the maid who found them in the morning not afraid of the dead, but only afraid that the sun would never rise again?
"Is there anything more interesting?" Guan Hongyan asked curiously with eyes wide open while cracking melon seeds.
What gossip is not allowed to her distinguished high-end vacation team members?
"Hmm..." Bai Jinshu thought for a moment and agreed to the request, "For example... Zheng Ju is actually a man?"
Yun Guang & Guan Hongyan & Xu Zichen: !!!
Yun Guang's eyes wandered subtly for a few times, and he looked in Zheng Ju's direction uncontrollably, and his eyelids twitched.
He did not doubt the truth in Skao's words.
But Zheng Ju... doesn't look like him at all, right?
Xu Zichen peeled another orange slice and sighed: "Young people nowadays..."
Guan Hongyan cracked another melon seed and shook her head: "Wow... a man in cross-dressing!"
[Surprised! Why aren't you surprised? ]
[You two are so calm, it seems that we are very ignorant when we see a cross-dressing man for the first time. 】
[Do you understand the value of high-end space?]
[I thought Sister Yaner would be shocked, but she seemed to accept it well.]
[It's hard to expect a high-end team member who may have seen aliens everywhere in the previous space to be shocked by a man dressed in women's clothing. ]
[I can see that Sister Yan'er and Xu Zichen are really here for vacation. You have already eaten five handfuls of melon seeds, a box of cranberries, three pounds of sugar oranges, and four egg yolk cakes in one morning.]
[And now, she took out her sixth handful of melon seeds.]
Guan Hongyan glanced at the figure beside Wang En with admiration, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and leaned over to ask in a low voice, "How did you find out?"
Yesterday and this morning, she, a girl, didn't realize that he was a crossdresser!
Guan Hongyan stared at Zheng Ju in confusion for a long time, and finally gave up.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a man???
But there's no need for a special space captain like Skao to lie to her in a place like this, right?
"Do you want to hear a more academic answer or a more practical one?" Bai Jinshu asked.
"Something more academic?" Guan Hongyan thought for a moment.
"The physiological differences in steps, skeleton, facial contours, movements, and voice are not so easy to change, and the differences can be seen in subtle details."
Really good academic...
"What about the more practical ones?" Guan Hongyan was curious.
Bai Jin said: "On my first day here, I saw these two people kissing at the door in the corridor. Zheng Ju was not wearing a wig."
Guan Hongyan: ...
It’s really practical...
As Guan Hongyan's expression gradually became subtle, Bai Jinshu smiled gently: "What's true won't be false, and what's false won't be true."
The curve of his mouth was very similar to Yun Guang's, but Guan Hongyan always felt that there was a kind of evil taste in his smile: "Is this information interesting enough?"
"Interesting," Guan Hongyan nodded, her eyes turning, "Then... is Wang En really engaged or married?"
"Yes," Bai Jinshu nodded, "There is a ring mark on the base of his left ring finger. Such a mark will only appear if you wear a ring for a long time."
"Then... Wang En knew that Zheng Ju was a man?" Xu Zichen couldn't help but gossip.
"Of course I know," Bai Jinshu shrugged with amusement, "It's impossible to hide such things."
"Marriage fraud?" Guan Hongyan was shocked. "No, is same-sex marriage allowed in this space?"
"I don't know," Bai Jinshu smiled, "But even if it is allowed, Wang En would still consider this as cheating on his wife, right?"
Now looking at Wang En who was yelling that although he had a lover and cheated on his wife, he would definitely not kill anyone, Guan Hongyan couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Scumbag."
The morning passed quickly as Guan Hongyan gossiped enthusiastically and the natives quarreled.
A servant who had never been seen before came to tell everyone that it was time for lunch. Although the heavy snow blocked the mountain and no one could leave the castle now, everyone could leave when the snow stopped.
As usual, Bai Jinshu did the translation.
In order to facilitate the investigation, Fang Shaoning and Ling Dai, who had more points among the remaining mid-level team members, actually exchanged for elementary French proficiency. The two roughly understood what the waiter said, but did not stand out to translate.
After all, I had to rely on Scario to understand what the maid said in the morning, but I suddenly could understand her at noon. This doesn't make sense, does it?
The remaining natives had a big quarrel in the morning, and now everyone looked like the murderer. They went to the banquet hall warily of each other, and inevitably had a lot of arguments on the way.
The exploration team members followed behind. Guan Hongyan went up to Zheng Ju to chat for a while, then came back to Yun Guang and Skao with a shocked look on her face and said, "I really can't tell."
She had just observed him closely for a long time, and even though she already knew that Zheng Ju was a boy, she still couldn't find any clues from this look.
Lu Changfeng asked curiously, "Sister Yan, what can't you see?"
He had been looking for clues in the architect's room that morning and had not participated in the conversation between the two people, so naturally he did not know Zheng Ju's identity.
Guan Hongyan smiled subtly: "Zheng Ju is a man."
Lu Changfeng: ???
Lu Changfeng almost jumped up: "Zheng Ju is..." is a man???
【It's so funny, Lu Changfeng's reaction.】
[Very good, I am satisfied. ]
[Right, this is the reaction you want when dealing with explosive information. Don't be so indifferent like the other two people.]
On the screen, Lu Changfeng was halfway through his sentence when his brother Ao casually stopped him in the middle.
"What a great insight."
Xu Zichen took a quick step forward and covered Lu Changfeng's mouth.
Lu Changfeng's voice had already attracted the attention of others. He quickly made an OK gesture to indicate that he would not say it, and Xu Zichen let go.
"Um..." Lu Changfeng paused for a moment, grinning as if he had a toothache, "Is it really a man? How did you know? Should we tell anyone about this?"
"Of course not. Wouldn't it be more interesting to let them discover it themselves?" Guan Hongyan said casually while peeling oranges as if she was on a spring outing. "This was discovered by your brother Ao. Go ask him."
Bai Jinshu raised an eyebrow at him.
Lu Changfeng: "...Brother Ao discovered it, so I won't say anything nonsense."
He understood Scario's bad taste.
What is the value of crawling in the corridor in the middle of the night while shouting "I'm sick"...
He now fully suspected that his brother Ao did not tell the news in order to make a big splash among this group of people.
"Tsk, what a waste," Guan Hongyan said rudely, "What did you find out this morning?"
In the morning, Lu Changfeng and the rest of the exploration team were investigating in the room. They had just investigated halfway when Skao instigated everyone to start quarreling, which gave the exploration team an opportunity to take advantage of.
After a morning, it is hard to say what the natives found, but the exploration team members must have made some discoveries.
On the way to the banquet hall, Xu Zichen asked curiously: "Skao, who do you think is the murderer?"
Bai Jinshu thought for a moment and said, "If I have to say... Zhang San."
Someone in the barrage asked curiously:
[Did Aoshen see anything? 】
[You are so sure, there must be some clues, right? ]
[Is this space going to end so soon? ? ? ]
"Why is it Zhang San?" Lu Changfeng asked the question on behalf of everyone.
Bai Jinshu glanced at him.
Of course it’s because Zhang San has calluses on his hands.
The knuckles of the middle finger and both sides of the index finger have extremely obvious marks of gunshot marks.
When they met on the first day, Zhang San exposed part of his knuckles in order to operate the mobile phone to take pictures, which made him discover this.
If there is a killer among this group of people, it can only be Zhang San.
Zhang San and Li Si have a grudge, and Li Si probably has dirty hands as well.
However, when everyone gathered this morning, when Zhang San saw Jian Zhu's body, the surprise that flashed across his eyes didn't seem fake.
It shouldn't be Zhang San who killed the person.
In other words, the person was not killed by the killer.
A killer came to kill the architect, but before the killer could do anything, the architect had already died inexplicably.
However, because Zhang San had a grudge against him, or because Li Si had deduced Zhang San's mission, he mistakenly thought that he knew who the murderer was.
Viewed from this perspective, the architect’s death becomes even more confusing.
Not far away, Zhang San and Li Si, who looked like they were cast in the same mold, were standing on each side, trying to kill the other with their eyes.
The remaining few members of the exploration team also came over curiously, wanting to hear the insightful opinions of this senior team member.
"Why is there any reason for this? It's because his name is Zhang San," Bai Jin said slowly under everyone's gaze, "Don't you know that Zhang San is an outlaw?"
【It’s so funny.】
【Well-reasoned and convincing. 】
[The best reasoning of the year belongs to this. 】
[This is so reasonable, my friends. What about you guys? ]
【I voted, too.】
Mid-level players: …
It turns out that we shouldn't pin our hopes on the high-end players who are here on vacation.
The author has something to say:
Well-reasoned and convincing
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