Chapter 111 Blizzard Villa (14) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
The wind and snow outside the window seemed to be getting stronger.
A bunch of comments popped up on the screen:
[Fuck, I was suddenly woken up by a closing reminder in the middle of the night. Is Wang En really dead?]
[I didn’t see clearly how he died.]
[Neither do I. What happened? How did Wang En die so suddenly? ]
[God damn, what kind of weird adjective is this.]
[So how did Wang En die? Did anyone see it clearly? Who did it? ]
[He was coughing and coughing... and suddenly died? 】
[It seems like no one is taking action...]
【？ 】
【Did anyone touch him?】
[No, Qiao Youlin and the others wanted to help, but Fu Gui said that if they helped, they wouldn't be able to explain it clearly, so they didn't help.]
[This is a scam. If no one touches him, he will die? ? ? ]
[How did Wang En die? ]
[Poisoned? ]
[Choked to death? ]
[He is such a grown man, he couldn’t have died of starvation…]
【Grass. 】
Different from the lively comments, the empty banquet hall suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
After several seconds, the sound of Fu Gui putting down the wine glass in his hand woke everyone up.
With a "ding" sound, the bottom of the wine glass hit the table, making an exceptionally clear sound: "Is he really dead?"
"Let me see..." Qiao Youlin had already squatted between Wang En's body and the vomit. He put his hand under Wang En's nose and probed. Then he raised his head. "He's not breathing."
In fact, you don’t even need to look at it.
Wang En fell to the ground, his body was still warm, but he was motionless. His face was filled with a concrete look of fear, and all the freshness and liveliness in his pupils that belonged to a living person had disappeared. Now lying on the ground was just a lifeless body.
Ling Dai stepped forward and pressed his heart a few times, then faced his face full of fear and said in a low voice, "The heart has stopped beating, too."
Wang En is really dead.
Perhaps in the last second of his life, he realized that his life was coming to an end.
And in the last moments of his life, I don’t know if Wang En knew how he died, but the group of people in the banquet hall now definitely didn’t know.
After two reports confirming Wang En's death, Fu Gui's expression suddenly turned worse: "I didn't touch him!"
In the howling snow and wind, the entire banquet hall was filled with Fu Gui's voice: "From this afternoon on, I haven't even touched Wang En!"
He spoke with a very sharp enunciation, as if he was biting his back teeth, and each word was extremely clear: "Wang En said that tonight. I can't risk being labeled a murder suspect and kill him."
Fu Gui gritted his teeth and stood up from the stool as he spoke: "Is Wang En really dead? Are you in cahoots with him? Just to put the blame of murder on me?"
"Brother Fu, Brother Fu!" Behind him, the secretary Xiao Mi called him a few times and seemed to want to hold him back, but was pushed away by Fu Gui.
"I want to see whether Wang En is really dead or faking his death!"
"Don't come over here," Ling Dai had already stood up from the ground, "Wang En's body is right here, wait until everyone has seen it first."
"Even if this gets out and my reputation gets ruined, so what?" Fu Gui was stopped by two people in front of Wang En's body. He could only stare at him, as if he was looking at an enemy. "Anyway, I still have the stocks in my hands, so that little bit of reputation can have almost no impact on me."
When this is stated openly, it is somewhat shockingly straightforward.
If Fu Gui's true identity were to be revealed, it would actually have nothing to do with the stock price. After all, since he was able to marry Ronghua through formal channels and even get shares in the company, the household registration issue must have been taken care of back then.
But if the news that Fu Gui had killed someone spreads out and touches the bottom line of the law, the impact would be huge.
Secretary Xiao Mi also seemed to be startled by Fu Gui's sudden commotion. She hurried over from behind and whispered, "Brother Fu, calm down. The death of the person has nothing to do with us, and you are indeed the most suspicious now..."
Before his death, Wang En emphasized countless times that if he died, it must be because he revealed Fu Gui's secret and was retaliated by Fu Gui. Now that he is really dead, other people are naturally more vigilant against Fu Gui.
"Am I the biggest suspect?" Fu Gui stood beside the table, his voice tense, "Do you all think I killed the person?"
Secretary Xiao Mi lowered her eyes slightly and didn't dare to respond.
Ling Dai didn't have such concerns. She stood still and said very rationally, "It is indeed you who are in the biggest conflict with Wang En now. You were the only person he emphasized before his death."
"That's just him being stupid." Fu Gui took a few rough breaths and swore, which was very rare. "Why didn't anyone suspect Ronghua?! He only thought that if this got out, I would be affected. Wouldn't Ronghua be affected too?"
"What does it have to do with me?" Ronghua turned around with a goblet in his hand and looked over. "You can't find anyone else to blame, so you come to throw dirty water on me?"
"The man died in front of everyone, and I was sitting there alone, how could I do anything?"
"Alone? I don't believe you are alone," Fu Gui stood beside the table, his eyes fierce, "Ronghua, you haven't been a rich lady for too long and forgotten how your family got started, have you?"
"Why didn't you find out that there was something wrong with my identity at the beginning?" His eyes flashed like a beast in the dim light, "Because your identities at the beginning were not allowed to be seen in public, and you couldn't investigate at all."
[Hmm?]
The comments that were originally discussing the cause of Wang En's death were suddenly distracted by what Fu Gui said on the screen.
【What does it mean? 】
[Fu Gui is admitting that he forged his identity to get married... He obviously didn't admit it at first.]
[After seeing Wang En's death, are you just going to give up? ]
[We shouldn't just give up after Wang En died. Wang En died. He died anyway. 】
[What did he mean by that? What did he mean by Ronghua's original identity was not to be seen in public? ]
[Did Ronghua's family have a dirty beginning? ]
Wang En's body fell to the ground. Fu Gui was stopped, and the rest of the people naturally came over. Ronghua, wearing his coat, also came over to take a look, then stepped back a few steps in disgust.
She looked a little tipsy, with a very evenly distributed light red on both sides of her cheeks. When Guan Hongyan walked past her, she suspected that her frown might not be because of the dead Wang En.
Maybe it was because of the not-so-nice smell around his body.
"Fu Gui, you don't have to be so quick to pass on the blame," Rong Hua walked beside him and spoke with a cold face, "How the Rong family got started and Wang En's death are two different things. You are forcibly linking the two things. Are you trying to drag me into this and make it the case that we killed someone together?"
"Two different things? Of course they are one different thing," Fu Gui curled his lips, "Ronghua, you have already planned this vacation, right? I don't believe you won't bring someone with you."
He swept his eyes over everyone present, and Guan Hongyan couldn't help but frown under his gaze.
"As we all know," Fu Gui retracted his gaze and stood up, his voice becoming increasingly gnashed, "The Rong Group did not start out cleanly. Didn't your family start out as a black to white company? It's just that by the time you got the company, the entire company had already been cleansed."
"Ronghua, how clean are you? Not necessarily," Fu Gui sneered, "Do you think you could have cleared your name so quickly without my involvement?"
His previous leisurely look had long disappeared. After saying this, Fu Gui just turned around and left in front of everyone.
Secretary Xiao Mi stood there in a daze, looking like she had heard some shocking news and didn't know whether to leave or not.
After hesitating for a few seconds, she looked at Wang En's body on the ground, and ran quickly in the direction where Fu Gui left.
The comments on the barrage have already started to swirl wildly:
[…I take back what I said this afternoon that I love Ronghua.]
[Your copy... can't be played without some explosive identities? 】
[A gangster lady and a marriage fraudster, what an excellent marriage matching mechanism. ]
[A woman disguised as a man and a righteous male mistress and a Phoenix man who hooked up with a rich woman with illicit money, this matching mechanism is also excellent...]
[What does Fu Gui mean when he says Ronghua had thought about it from the beginning? Did Ronghua plan to kill Fu Gui here from the beginning? ]
[Probably...right? Maybe it's because Ronghua has a special status, so he is always accompanied by a few plainclothes bodyguards when he goes out to play... He probably means that it wasn't him who killed the person, nor was it Ronghua who killed him, and the real murderer of Wang En was someone else. ]
[…At this point, he actually still remembered the stock price. He was trying to excuse himself while also trying to excuse Ronghua. He really made me cry.]
【He really is like that. I cried my heart out.】
【He warmed my heart and made me cry. 】
On the screen, as Fu Gui left, Ronghua also went up to the room with a cold face and clothes on. Seeing the two people's exactly the same cold faces, Guan Hongyan twitched her lips and sighed softly: "Brother Fu Gui is also a great man. He knows that others have made a fortune in the underworld, but he still dares to cheat on marriage."
Or they are trying to get married when the group has not been cleaned up. If there is any mistake, they will be filled with cement and sunk into the sea, right?
"The greater the investment, the greater the return," Bai Jinshu raised his eyelids, "Just look at how many shares he holds now, and you'll know that his bet was right."
That's true.
From an ordinary person in an unknown small city in Province Z to becoming the husband of the heir of the Rong family and the holder of 25% of the shares, if this were told to others, just reading this sentence would be like an inspirational story.
"So Wang En's death this time...actually leads to Rong Hua's identity clues," Xu Zichen touched his chin, "What about Wang En's?"
Is it that the information chain about his identity is broken, or is this the end of Wang En’s identity?
Being able to get clues through Wang En’s death means that at least his death was based on the correct order, otherwise it would be impossible to get so much information. But how can we get the clues about Wang En?
"Not only Ronghua's..." Bai Jinshu's eyes swept across Zheng Tan who was not far away, "There are also Jian Zhu and Zheng Tan."
Yun Guang thought for a moment and said, "I remember that the purpose of the company project that hired Jian Zhu was to launder money."
Ronghua and Fu Gui recognized the important purpose of the project at a glance, and pointed out the fact that there was probably a killer among the guests who came to kill the architect.
This group actually uses projects to launder money, so there must be something fishy behind it.
No one thought there was a problem at the time, but looking back now, a money laundering project that requires sending assassins to secretly kill the project architect cannot be made known to everyone no matter what, right?
How did Ronghua and Fu Gui know about this?
The Rong family's early fortune was not clean. Apart from the speculation that they have very close ties with that company, a more reliable guess is that the Rong family was involved in this money laundering project from the very beginning.
That's why they would conclude that this project is for money laundering just by hearing the name.
In order to convey the message that there was a killer in the crowd, they cleverly removed themselves from the matter and only said that this project was not simple and that killing Jian Zhu was for money laundering.
If Fu Gui hadn't said this, who would have thought that the Rong family might be involved in this project from the very beginning.
Jian Zhu is not the only person related to this company. Zheng Tan was also accused of murder in a relationship with the vice president of this group. So there must be many connections between Zheng Tan and them.
As a normal detective, why was he inexplicably accused of murder and said that he was framed? Was it because he touched the interests of a certain group that could not be touched?
Guan Hongyan felt that her CPU was about to break.
After saying this mind-boggling sentence, Yun Guang and Scarao had already squatted beside Wang En's body. The two of them seemed to have lost their sense of smell. They squatted beside him without frowning, and seemed to be communicating in a low voice.
Guan Hongyan squatted down and heard Yun Guang's voice saying, "Cyanide?"
"Yes," Skao confirmed in a low voice, "There are no external injuries."
Guan Hongyan covered her nose and moved closer. Yun Guang looked up and saw her coming, so he reached out and hit her with something.
Guan Hongyan only felt that the air at the tip of her nose suddenly became fresher, and she felt as if she had lived again.
She squatted down beside him unceremoniously and complained in a low voice: "I wonder how the two of you can stand this smell, and you have to use this miracle of air purification."
Didn't she see that Zheng Tan's face turned green? After staying here for a while, he seemed to be unable to bear it and got up to go to the side for some fresh air. Seeing that these two people had stayed here for such a long time and showed no signs of getting up, she thought they had amazing endurance.
Who knew it was actually a miracle using the Foundation.
"What miracle?" Ling Dai asked somewhat unbearably.
Now Wang En's body was surrounded by members of the exploration team. Bai Jin did not avoid other people when he spoke: "In the foundation's mall, tens of thousands of points are available for half an hour. If you want to use it, ask Yun Guang to send it to you."
After all, Guan Hongyan is one of them, but these mid-level players are not. Although Yun Guang is considered a good guy, it is not worth it for him to buy miracles for them.
Moreover, it is still questionable whether Yun Guang, this "good old man", can be considered a "good man" in the universal sense.
After all, no good person would remain calm when hearing him say that only by killing people can one advance through the rules, or even ask him who he will attack next.
For Yun Guang, perhaps "good" or "bad" is just a relative concept.
Several mid-level players looked at each other, and Ling Dai was the first to give up: "Forget it then."
This is too expensive.
This kind of miracle must have other uses, but using tens of thousands of points to block odors is a bit too extravagant.
Zheng Tan took a few breaths outside and came back to Wang En's body.
When he came back, the two had almost figured out the cause of Wang En's death.
Wang En died of cyanide poisoning, and it was extremely severe cyanide poisoning.
In the prodromal stage of cyanide poisoning, patients who inhale toxic gases or ingest cyanide orally mainly experience upper respiratory tract irritation symptoms such as blurred vision, nausea, and vomiting, as well as digestive tract symptoms.
Yun Guang frowned slightly as he spoke: "But if it is cyanide poisoning, one of the most obvious manifestations is that the exhaled gas and vomit have the smell of bitter almonds, which is covered by the smell of alcohol."
Before Wang En died, the wine glass in his hand and the bottle of red wine on the table were accidentally knocked over when he was about to vomit.
The stored red wine was spilled on the carpet, giving off a very strong smell of alcohol, along with the smell of bad stomach acid and Wang En's incontinence before his death. A bunch of smells mixed together, and the very subtle smell of bitter almonds had naturally disappeared without a trace.
If it were still connected to the outside world, we could just send it for inspection and get the results, but now everyone is trapped in this villa.
Except for the architect, the causes and methods of death of the guests who died a few days ago were very clearly manifested in external injuries, but Wang En, like Jian Zhu, did not have any wounds at all.
The reason why we could find out that he died of cyanide was that Wang En died in public. No one approached him when he vomited. Rong Hua, who was sitting above him, had already left his seat with his wine glass, and Zhang San, who was sitting below him, looked visibly disgusted and did not make any physical contact with him.
There is no other way to explain this kind of death except poisoning.
Among poisons, the only one that reacts so quickly and is widely known is cyanide.
"The food was poisoned?" Zheng Tan covered his nose and made a muffled sound.
French food is not like Chinese food, where meals are served separately, with each person having their own plate. So if the food in front of Wang En is poisonous, it is normal for others to be unaware of it.
"It's been several hours since dinner time until Wang En's death," Bai Jinshu glanced at him, "Ordinary cyanide usually takes about 15-60 minutes to take effect, not that slow. If you want it to be that slow, you need to synthesize it yourself in the laboratory."
And there are obviously no conditions for synthesizing cyanide in the castle now.
This effect cannot be achieved unless the person who poisoned the victim intends to carry cyanide that will take several hours to kill the victim.
And ordinary cyanide is actually not on the list of things that a normal person would bring on vacation.
The only person who could possibly be carrying such a deadly object is...
Zheng Tan's gaze uncontrollably shifted towards Zhang San's direction.
Killer.
Apart from the "people brought by Ronghua" mentioned by Fu Gui, who is not sure whether they exist or not, it is reasonable for only the killer to carry these highly toxic chemicals.
If this cyanide was originally intended for the architect Jian Zhu, but Jian Zhu died inexplicably, causing the poison he had prepared previously to completely lose its effect, then it would explain why Wang En died in public.
But if Zhang San came here to kill the architect, then why did he attack Wang En?
Zheng Tan's fingers tapped the ground a few times unconsciously.
Zhang San is a killer, and as a killer, all he needs is money.
If Zhang San's identity was accidentally exposed to Fu Gui, then Fu Gui could simply hire Zhang San to carry out the murder and thus clear himself from the matter.
"If he died from cyanide poisoning... then who poisoned him?" There were other people who were thinking about the same question.
Ling Dai glanced vaguely in the direction where Fu Gui and Rong Hua left, and winked at Qiao Youlin.
"It doesn't feel like it..." Qiao Youlin lowered his voice.
Wang En was too arrogant during dinner today. This arrogance was also his initial means of protecting himself. Everyone's eyes were fixed on him, so if anyone wanted to do something in public, it would be difficult.
Especially Fu Gui. From beginning to end, Fu Gui did as he said and never touched Wang En.
If you want to poison him, you have to at least touch what's in his hand, right?
"Or was the poison put in the tableware or food?" All the guests were not gathered before dinner started.
"Cyanide will irritate the skin if it comes into contact with it," Ling Dai lowered her voice from behind. "If the poison was put on the tableware or food, then one of the servants must be dead. Or, even if no one is dead, there will be burn marks on their hands. We can go and see if there are any scars on the hands of the servants tomorrow, and then let Skao ask them about the situation."
Ling Dai's voice was excited, but Guan Hongyan keenly felt that something was wrong.
What really killed Wang En was probably not the food or the tableware.
If it was food, he would have died long ago after ingesting a large amount of cyanide. Even if he didn't die, he would have vomited long ago.
And if it was tableware, he grabbed the plate smeared with poison with his bare hands, so it is impossible that there would be no burn marks on the hands of the corpse now.
What really killed him?
Next to Wang En's body, the long-haired young man slowly stood up and silently curled the corners of his mouth.
It's a napkin.
It is a napkin for wiping the mouth, so that the toxins can be brought into the digestive tract through the wine little by little. Since it was alcohol, Wang En did not take the burning sensation and nausea in his stomach to heart at first.
Blurred vision and difficulty breathing are also considered signs of drunkenness.
By the time the urge to vomit and convulsions appear, it is already too late.
He asked the butler to bring up a bottle of red wine from the wine cellar below that night. This was the suggestion he made to divert his attention after he had stared at Fang Shaoning idly and made him restless.
It seems that he guessed correctly that the person who secretly poisoned him had reached a consensus with him.
The author has something to say:
Wang En: Hello? The premise of reaching a consensus is to sacrifice me, right?
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