Chapter 109 Blizzard Villa (12) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
Yun Guang shrugged: "That's probably what happens when you say it."
"What a pessimistic person." Xu Zichen shook his head and walked past Fang Shaoning who was stopped in the road.
The two high-level players were so calm that Lu Changfeng and the mid-level players at the back, who were originally a little nervous, could not help but feel a little relieved.
"Zheng Ju died so quickly?" Guan Hongyan muttered quietly, "Isn't this too quick?"
He was stimulated in the morning and died in the afternoon. Wang En was too efficient.
At the corner, they bumped into Zheng Tan, who had also heard the noise and rushed over. Zheng Tan saw them and asked hastily, "Do you know what happened?"
Without waiting for the exploration team members to answer, the noise coming from the room in the distance gradually became louder and louder. In addition to Ronghua's hysterical voice, Wang En's voice sounded very righteous: "Don't talk nonsense, I wasn't there when Zheng Ju died, okay?"
"Zheng Ju?" Zheng Tan's face changed. "Someone died?"
Fu Gui stood beside Wang En, and for once stood on his side: "Ronghua, get this straight. When Zheng Ju died, Wang En was with me in the hall. He has an alibi, so it's impossible for him to have killed Zheng Ju."
"Instead of insisting on your own way here, why don't you let us see what's going on inside and find out how he died."
These two people did not show up in the morning and only came down from upstairs at noon. They should have finished catching up on their sleep in the morning, and when the remaining four guests went to catch up on their sleep in the afternoon, these two people appeared.
"Alibi?" Ronghua curled his lips, and several strands of hair that were originally tied up on his head fell down. He looked indescribably sharp and aggressive. "What's the use of an alibi? I don't believe you. I want to wait for Zheng Tan to come."
There were three people standing in the corridor. Ronghua was blocking the door of a half-open room, looking unwilling to give in, while in front of the door stood Fu Gui and Wang En.
Seeing them coming, Fu Gui made way for them and for the first time took the initiative to say, "Zheng Tan is here."
Zheng Tan was followed by his secretary Xiao Mi. Xiao Mi jogged a few steps and followed behind Fu Gui. She asked in a low voice, "Brother Fu, what's wrong?"
"Zheng Ju is dead," Fu Gui's expression eased a little when facing his secretary. "After Ronghua woke up from his nap in the afternoon, he opened the door to look for Zheng Ju and found that he was dead."
He said this to his secretary and to the other guests behind him who were confused.
"What about Wang En? Why do you say it was Wang En who did it?" Zheng Tan didn't react. "Can I take a look at the scene?"
Ronghua made way for him, but insisted on not letting Wang En enter.
As Zheng Tan walked in, he heard Fu Gui's voice outside: "Wang En... I don't know either."
Fu Gui also made way for him, his face was full of helplessness, and when he looked at Ronghua, it was as if he was looking at a madman who was making trouble for no reason: "Wang En and I were in the hall this afternoon. When we heard someone died upstairs, we ran upstairs. When we came over, we saw Ronghua and said that it was Wang En who did it."
His words implied that Ronghua was being unreasonable, which made Ronghua stand at the door with an even more sarcastic smile on his face.
Inside the room, the scene of Zheng Ju's death was much more messy than the previous deaths.
The ground was littered with things that had been overturned or knocked to the ground during the fight. Zheng Ju's suitcase had been violently opened, and the contents, including many skirts, were scattered all over the floor.
Zheng Ju died on a stool in his room. Zheng Tan went over to see the condition of the deceased. Bai Jinshu saw that the space was too small to squeeze in, so he squatted down to take a look. In the middle of the room there was an obvious pile of burnt paper ash, with some unburned pieces of paper on the edge. Bai Jinshu picked them out and took a look. They were some photos.
And it is most likely a photo of Zheng Ju and Wang En taken together.
In the picture, it can be vaguely seen from the corners that have not been burned clean that Zheng Ju is still wearing the green camisole that was seen a few days ago. She has delicate makeup on her face and a chestnut-colored pear-shaped curly short hair. No one can tell her real gender in the photo.
There was a lot of white paper ash on the ground next to it, which didn't look like Polaroid film. It was some paper that had been torn into pieces.
From the very small tear marks that completely destroyed the readability of the document, it can be seen that the person who tore up the document must have been both rational and angry at the time.
This is also evidenced by the footprints that were repeatedly pressed back and forth on the few surviving sheets of paper.
"It's a contract for transferring real estate." Yun Guang roughly tried to spell it out, but when he found that he couldn't spell it out, he used a repair miracle without anyone noticing. After confirming what was written on it, he restored it to its original state. "It seems that Wang En is planning to transfer a house to Zheng Ju's name."
In addition to Zheng Tan, there were two other people, Zhang San and Li Si, who came into the room to check the body. After he used a miracle to check the contract, he restored it to its original state, turned his head and whispered to Bai Jinshu.
In addition, most of the valuables in the box were also found.
However, these things were not taken away, but thrown aside, as if the person who took them out did so just to vent his anger.
"Zheng Ju's phone was also smashed," Guan Hongyan picked up a broken phone from the corner, "I tried to turn it on, and it showed a white screen. It was obvious that the screen had been broken by someone, so much so that it could not display anything."
All these actions were as if this person was inspired after the architect died and everyone discovered his many connections with everyone from the documents he left behind. Then, while killing Zheng Ju, they also used some means to destroy his mobile phone and anything in his luggage that could expose his connections with themselves.
"It doesn't look like Wang En?" Ling Dai muttered softly.
Yes, the death scene looked very messy, but if this mess was intended to destroy all clues, then it didn’t seem like Wang En would do it.
His relationship with Zheng Ju is already known to everyone, unless he did this to prevent everyone from discovering the connection between Zheng Ju and other guests, but based on the performance of these guests in the past few days, Wang En doesn't seem like someone who would think so for others.
"He smashed all those things," Ronghua stood at the door unexpectedly, and sneered when he heard their words, "When we left the banquet hall at noon today, Wang En said he wanted to talk to Zheng Ju alone. I was worried that he would do something to Zheng Ju, so I wanted to go in with him, but he refused. As a result, I heard a quarrel in the room soon, and the sound of things being knocked over."
After facing four deaths in just two days, Ronghua calmed down visibly after a brief collapse: "When he left, the room was a mess."
"In order to avoid being disturbed by our roommates, Zheng Ju and I chose new rooms for our afternoon nap. The only person I can think of who knows which room Zheng Ju is in and can kill him accurately is Wang En."
"That doesn't prove anything," Wang En said calmly, "You saw me leave Zheng Ju's room. Zheng Ju was still alive at that time. After I left, I went to the hall and stayed with Fu Gui. From beginning to end, I never left other people's sight during the time of his death."
"Who said that we can't turn back after that?" Rong Hua stood at the door, letting others look at him. "You could have turned back after I found out you left and met with Zheng Ju, killed him, and then went back to the living room downstairs to create a so-called alibi."
"I'm not as suspicious as you are," Wang En did not engage in pointless self-defense. Instead, he immediately fought back as if he was provoked, "Besides me, aren't you the only one who knows where Zheng Ju's room is?"
"Since the secretary Xiao Mi, this is the second murder scene you have uncovered, right? Maybe it was you, Ronghua, who killed the secretary and then Zheng Ju, and then pretended to be a victim and cried thief."
"Ronghua, last time you killed Xiao Miwei and caused her to commit suicide, this time you killed Zheng Ju and asked me to take the blame. Who are you going to kill next and who are you going to use as a scapegoat?"
He aimed his fire at Ronghua, but before Fu Gui could speak, Zheng Tan in the room shook his head: "This was not killed by Ronghua."
He walked out of the room with a knife in his hand: "Here is the murder weapon."
The blade was covered with sticky blood. The moment Lu Changfeng at the door saw the blood, he felt dizzy and his face turned pale.
When he first entered the unknown space, he would only turn pale when he saw wounds, but after several copies, he had evolved to the point where he would turn pale when he saw blood. As time goes by, it is not difficult to imagine that he might even feel dizzy when he hears related descriptions.
It is conceivable that Guan Hongyan, whose fixed attribute is [not eating coriander], would be tortured after hearing these two words...
Bai Jinshu raised his eyes and saw that Lu Changfeng's face was extremely pale. He quickly signaled Xu Zichen, who was near the door, to help him up: "Xu Zichen."
Xu Zichen hurried over and supported Lu Changfeng and turned him over.
Guan Hongyan's low voice continued to complain: "Cheung Fen, next time you see a dead body, you'd better not come. You knew someone was injured but you still stayed away."
"Who knows?" Lu Changfeng closed his eyes in pain and retched. "I don't want to do that either."
The first three times he saw corpses, the first was the architect with no signs of external injuries, the second and third were his secretaries Xiao Shu and Qiao Youlin who were well prepared and stayed away from him. This was the first time he knew that his fixed attributes had evolved to this extent.
There were also several discussions floating on the barrage:
[The fixed attributes of rice noodle rolls are evolving very quickly. 】
[You didn't even look at what he did with the fixed attributes before. If you use it more, the fixed attributes will naturally rise faster.]
[Who would have thought that this ordinary exploration team member had actually witnessed his teammates opening the bucket eleven times.jpg]
[At this level, you won’t feel dizzy even if you make a cut on your hand, right? ]
[This will affect the action too much...]
[It’s possible, but the tolerance of rice noodle rolls seems to be much better now. ]
[Rare attributes are all like this. When they evolve to a certain level, they become obstacles. Only after they pass this level can they continue. The exploration team members of low- and mid-level activities cannot reach this level, and the high-level space team members who cannot break through this wall have already died. ]
Discussions flashed across the screen. Inside the screen, Zhang San, Li Si, who had just come up the stairs, and other guests in the corridor couldn't help but look puzzled.
If we were to say who looks most like the murderer here, it must be Lu Changfeng with a scar on his face.
He has a face that looks like that of a wanted criminal, but he faints at the sight of blood. The moment he sees blood, his face turns pale and he starts retching. This strange contrast makes everyone look puzzled.
The other three mid-level players were not clear about his attributes and couldn't help but cast strange looks at him.
There are many mechanisms in the unknown space of the Foundation that can cost lives if you are not careful. For someone like him who is easily scared of blood but can still fight all the way to the high-end space, has he never killed anyone along the way?
Considering what they said before about this space being most likely a battle royale game, the three of them didn't look very happy.
The other guests reacted after a brief moment of subtle expression. Zheng Tan straightened his face and continued the previous topic: "The wound is very deep, and Zheng Ju has traces of being suppressed after a fight. If it was Ronghua, she didn't have enough strength to suppress Zheng Ju. The murderer must be an adult male."
"Wang En..." Secretary Xiao Mi's voice was a little hesitant.
"It shouldn't be Wang En either," Zheng Tan frowned. "Zheng Ju died not long ago. According to Fu Gui's statement, Wang En was definitely not there at that time."
Zheng Tan ruled out the only two people who knew Zheng Ju's room as suspects.
"Can Fu Gui's testimony be trusted?" Rong Hua glanced around, "It was Fu Gui who first said that people would die every night, and it was also Fu Gui who took the lead in deciding to catch up on sleep and stay up late."
But now, during the day when everyone subconsciously thought it was safe, the dead appeared.
It's still the same situation where it looks like someone was killed.
Fu Gui created an atmosphere for everyone that nothing would happen during the day. Then, after everyone had subtly accepted this rule and did not guard against people during the day when no life-threatening danger would occur, the murder happened.
"Maybe Fu Gui misled everyone from the beginning, just to kill people during the day when everyone thought it was safe?" Ronghua reached out and brushed the hair in front of his eyes.
"Moreover, among all the people present, only Wang En had a motive to kill."
"What motive could I have for murder?" Wang En really jumped up and down. "Zheng Ju and I parted ways amicably. Even if I didn't want the news to get out, I could just give him some hush money. What reason could I have for murder?"
He stretched out his hand and swung it in the middle: "The relationship between us is at best ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend. Rather than saying that I have a motive to kill, it's better to say that Ronghua has it. She has already discovered the scene twice!"
Ronghua raised his eyes and locked his gaze in Wang En's direction: "Really?"
She curled her lips and suddenly looked up at him and Fu Gui behind him: "What if the reason why Zheng Ju became your lover was not because he was greedy for wealth, but because he was hired to deliberately sting the law enforcement in order to get evidence of your infidelity and thus ruin your reputation?"
When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked.
Lu Changfeng, who was still unconscious, didn't care about blood or not. He suddenly widened his eyes and turned towards Wang En.
Wang En's expression was difficult to read, and it was obvious that he did not expect Ronghua to know about this.
But if you want to clear yourself of suspicion, the best way is not to make excuses, but to find a bigger suspect.
So, as if afraid that the explosive news was not enough, Wang En dropped another bomb.
"Why can't it be Fu Gui?" He looked at Zheng Ju's body in the house and gave Rong Hua a very subtle smile. "Zheng Ju said that he was here to collect evidence of my infidelity and bring ruin to my reputation. Did he say who hired him?"
"Who?" Ronghua didn't get the result he wanted, and looked in the direction of Wang En with a frown.
She subtly felt that things seemed to be wrong and were heading in a direction she could not control.
"Fu Yi," Wang En took a step back to the left, his eyes moving back and forth between Fu Gui and Rong Hua, "I noticed on the first day I came here that you, Fu Gui, and Fu Yi, look so much alike."
"But the strange thing is that Fu Yi never told me that she had a brother, and before this, I never knew where her money came from."
Wang En looked towards Ronghua with a sympathetic look: "You must know that Fu Gui has a biological sister, right?"
Ronghua's face was already full of complexity.
"Oh, it seems you really don't know." Wang En smiled sarcastically.
"You always say that you are an only child." Ronghua slowly looked in the direction of Fu Gui.
"Do you believe the nonsense that Wang En made up?" Fu Gui remained calm.
"Of course she believed it," Wang En raised his eyebrows, "Ronghua, you know how many times Fu Gui has deceived you, right?"
"You don't really think that's Fu Gui's cousin or something, do you?" Wang En's face was filled with a vengeful look of satisfaction. "Do you really believe that he has a cousin who looks almost exactly like him, who can use his credit card, use his car, has a pair of parents who look very much like him, and the whole family has endless money?"
At this point, Zheng Ju's death had long been forgotten by them.
Ronghua stared at Fu Gui and said, "You said that both your parents are dead and you are the only son of a poor family in Hong Kong."
Hong Kong City is too far away from the city where the Rong family’s main business is located. At that time, Fu Gui was a gentleman as gentle as jade. Even though the two of them had a falling out later, Fu Gui was very capable and she never doubted his identity.
"Tsk tsk," Wang En sighed, "Fu Yi is not in Hong Kong City, she is from Province Z."
"Fu Gui, you're not also cheating on your marriage, are you?"
Guan Hongyan was stunned and felt like a badger lost in a melon field.
Investors were also shocked:
【This “也” is very spiritual. 】
[Fu Gui cheated on her marriage, Wang En, you cheated on her marriage too, right? ]
[You, the natives of this space, please don’t be so ridiculous…]
[Wait wait wait, I'm dizzy, let me start from the beginning, Zheng Ju is a private detective? ]
【Who is Fu Yi then? 】
[Is it Wang En’s wife or girlfriend who has never appeared? ]
[I think I understand. The Fu Yi that Wang En hooked up with is Fu Gui's sister. When Fu Gui first married Rong Hua, he forged his identity and pretended to be a rich and handsome man in Hong Kong to gain her trust. He cut off ties with his family in public. But secretly, it was because of him and Rong Hua's marriage that their family became rich by using improper means to get the other party's shares. After Wang En and Fu Yi got together, he cheated on her. As a result, Fu Yi turned the tables and hired a private detective to fish for him and tried to get evidence of his cheating and ruin his reputation.]
[Hiss... What a complicated relationship. ]
[I understand. I hate Ronghua.]
[It's so pitiful for a young lady to get into trouble with such a bunch of bad guys because of marrying Fu Gui. ]
"Detective Zheng," Rong Hua took a deep breath and looked in the direction of Zheng Tan on the screen, "Now, is Fu Gui's alibi for Wang En still valid?"
Zheng Tan's CPU seemed to be a bit stuck: "This..."
As long as Zheng Ju died, the evidence of Wang En's cheating would be buried. At the same time, the fact that the person who hired him was actually the biological sister of Fu Gui, who claimed to be the only son of a poor family in Gangcheng, would also be covered up.
The suspicions of these two men are almost equal.
The barrage was also stunned:
[Is it okay for a private detective to get himself involved in a detective job...]
[This is no longer just a simple sacrifice of oneself, Zheng Ju died directly?! ]
[Why is the relationship between Ronghua, Fu Gui and Wang En so complicated? ? ? ]
[Zheng Ju's identity is not simple either, it's just a nesting doll. At first I thought he was just a cross-dressing man, then you told me that the cross-dressing man was the top, and now you tell me that the cross-dressing man actually approached Wang En on purpose to collect evidence of his infidelity. I won't be surprised by what happens next.]
[So this is the reason why Ronghua accepted him later, because he approached Wang En in the beginning for justice? ]
[No, I'm a little confused. You suddenly told me that a cross-dressing guy who came to pick up a rich man is actually the mistress of a righteous man...? ]
[Wait, if Zheng Ju is a private detective who came to investigate, then what was he trying to do by winking at Aoshen in the beginning...]
[Uh... while investigating, find your next sponsor? ]
[Do private detectives need to find the next sponsor? ]
Everyone on the screen was also thinking about this question.
If Zheng Ju was commissioned by Fu Gui's sister Fu Yi from the beginning and came here to collect evidence, then why on earth would he be interested in Rong Hua and the person around Bai Jinshu?
There are many complicated relationships between these people. It may be that Zheng Ju and Rong Hua were too close, which aroused Fu Gui's vigilance and made him kill Zheng Ju.
It is also possible that Fu Gui and Wang En hit it off and both wanted to kill Zheng Ju, so they gave false testimony for each other.
But whether Zheng Ju, who accepted the commission, knew the true identity of his employer and why he was so close to Ronghua became a mystery with his death.
"Is Zheng Ju trying to make his character more realistic?" Xu Zichen couldn't help but keep his eyes on Zheng Tan for a few minutes, muttering softly, "Private detectives work so hard nowadays? It seems that the employers are paying too much."
Combined with Zheng Ju’s previous words “I didn’t volunteer to be a top”, Xu Zichen felt that he seemed to know too much.
"Wrong," Bai Jinshu shook his head and looked at Zheng Ju who had already stopped breathing in the room. A hint of interest appeared in his eyes, "The order is wrong."
Everyone was also preconceived by Ronghua's words. Why must he become a private detective and then receive the case to investigate?
Zheng Ju's performance would not lie. One of his goals in coming here could be to collect evidence, but his main purpose must be to find a new financial sponsor.
The real sequence of this matter should be that after Zheng Ju successfully hooked up with Wang En, he received a commission from Fu Gui's sister Fu Yi, who asked him and Wang En to continue this relationship and collect enough evidence to ruin his reputation or leave the house with nothing.
Zheng Ju accepted the commission voluntarily or forcedly. In order to collect more evidence, he followed Wang En to the castle and was determined to find a new financial sponsor in the castle. Fortunately, he had found a way out before Wang En was kicked out of the house.
As for whether the retreat is Ronghua or Huai Jiamu next to him, it actually doesn’t matter, because Zheng Ju knew from the beginning that once they left the castle, what awaited Wang En would be being kicked out of the house and his dreams would be shattered.
From this point of view, what happened in the snow that made Wang En blurt out Zheng Ju's biggest secret as soon as he came in? It is very likely that Wang En discovered Rong Hua's abnormality at that time. He mistakenly thought that Zheng Ju accidentally said Fu Yi's name, which put him on the verge of being exposed...
"So Wang En and Zheng Ju had a quarrel because he discovered Zheng Ju's true purpose?" Guan Hongyan lowered her voice and looked around the house.
Apart from the speculation that the person who killed Zheng Ju initially wanted to destroy the identity evidence of his relationship with other guests in the room, it seems to make sense if Wang En discovered Zheng Ju's true purpose, then angrily destroyed all the evidence collected by the other party, and left after a big quarrel.
And with that said, Wang En's motive for murder becomes very clear.
If his previous intention to kill Zheng Ju might have come from the fact that if he let him escape alive, his own affair would be exposed, then although he had motives to kill, they were not many.
But now considering that Zheng Ju's purpose from the beginning was not pure, and he had been collecting evidence from the beginning to destroy Wang En's bargaining chip, then Wang En couldn't figure it out after eliminating all the evidence of the other party, and came back again. When Zheng Ju thought that all the evidence had been destroyed and nothing would happen again, he angrily killed him, and then went downstairs to create an alibi. This is much more reasonable.
only……
The photos of Zheng Ju and him were all Polaroids, which means that Wang En was an insider when the photos were taken. Then how did Wang En, who knew about the matter from the beginning to the end, know this?
"At the beginning."
"Ah?" Guan Hongyan turned her head sharply, "What do you mean?"
"Zheng Ju's flaw was at the beginning," Scario stared thoughtfully at the ashes in front of him. "On the first night, when the architect died, two things happened. The first was that the secretary Xiao Shu heard a collision downstairs, and the second was that Li Si said that the architect came back very late."
"From this, we can infer that at least five people were not in the room that night. In addition to the architect who was out collecting materials, there were Zheng Ju, Wang En, Zhang San and Li Si. It is inferred that Zheng Ju and Wang En were not there because Zhang San and Li Si were fighting outside their room."
"As for Zheng Ju and Wang En, we think they went to the architect to ask for the photos he accidentally took."
But from Zheng Ju's perspective, it would be best if the photo remained in the hands of the architect and was passed on unconsciously by him.
"So what if Zheng Ju didn't tell Wang En when he found out he was being photographed?" Skao stroked his chin thoughtfully, "What if Zheng Ju and Wang En were actually doing something else that night, so they didn't know when the architect died, because they didn't even go to look for the architect that night."
So when the architect died and the photos in the mobile phone were discovered, the fact that Zheng Ju, who was looking at the camera, did not tell Wang En that he had discovered that he was being photographed would be exposed.
But from the architect's death to Wang En's action, it must have been at least two or three days, right?
"With Wang En's personality, can he endure for so long?" Guan Hongyan questioned.
"No, Wang En certainly didn't find out. Someone told him," Bai Jinshu touched his chin and raised his lips thoughtfully. "Now, do you still think this is a simple Battle Royale rule?"
It seems that besides him, there is another person who is also hiding among the group of people, hoping that all the guests will fight each other.
Bai Jinshu half-crouched in the room, his eyes scanning the indigenous people in this space one by one.
Who is this person...?
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