Chapter 113 Blizzard Villa (16) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
The long banquet table in the castle, which was originally almost full, became emptier and emptier.
Zheng Tan had a rather tasteless lunch. Although he said that he might be a little groggy as he had just woken up, he actually looked very absent-minded. He would raise his head every few minutes and glance at Xu Zichen with concern.
Xu Zichen pretended to know nothing and let him look. He even made eye contact with him several times, intentionally or unintentionally. He asked with a confused look on his face, "What's wrong?"
Every time this happened, Zheng Tan would shudder as if he had received an electric shock, then carefully look him up and down, lingering on his neck, before hurriedly waving his hands and saying, "Nothing."
"Ah?" Xu Zichen pretended to be confused, touching his face and neck, then turned his head and looked in Guan Hongyan's direction strangely, "Is there something on my face?"
Guan Hongyan suppressed her laughter: "...No."
"Then what is Zheng Tan doing..." Xu Zichen lowered his voice and touched his head in confusion, "Why is he looking at me all the time?"
Xu Zichen is a man with some talent for acting. In just a few words, his expression and tone changed from confusion to strangeness and finally to vigilance.
So many people have died in the past few days. If one of the guests suddenly shows an unreasonable concern for me, I should be alert.
Zheng Tan also came to his senses. Although he still wanted to look in his direction for a while, the frequency of his look was much less than before.
Xu Zichen ate nervously while looking in Zheng Tan's direction vigilantly from time to time. Now it was Xu Zichen who kept looking around.
Guan Hongyan may have rarely seen Xu Zichen act like this, and it was very difficult for her to hold back her laughter. Finally, she simply whispered to Yun Guang, found a miracle from the mall and slapped it on her face, finally changing her expression that seemed like she might burst out laughing in the next second into a serious expressionless face.
It was this expressionless face that would twitch from time to time at the corners of its mouth, indicating that Guan Hongyan's heart was not at peace.
Yun Guang was inexplicably led by her and felt that Xu Zichen was indeed quite interesting.
When he met these two people, Xu Zichen and Guan Hongyan were already veterans who had been promoted to the high-end space. This kind of nervous and vigilant look was probably only seen when they were still in the novice stage of the low-end space.
Xu Zichen's acting was somewhat exaggerated, but this overly sensitive vigilance actually put Zheng Tan at ease.
After lunch, Zheng Tan found an opportunity to approach the exploration team members. Maybe because of some unusual behavior at the table, these people were now wary of him belatedly.
Yun Guang stood in the front and asked politely, "Any questions? If not, we plan to go upstairs to catch up on some sleep."
"No... uh," Zheng Tan paused, "No problem, I just want to ask what happened to Wang En's body."
He made up an excuse.
"The male servant in the castle has been carried away and dealt with." Yun Guang's tone was distant. Although still gentle, there was an imperceptible sense of vigilance and tension.
"So where are they?" Zheng Tan wanted to see if there were any scars on Xu Zichen's neck, but Yun Guang blocked his way, so he had to make small talk, "Where were all the bodies from the past few days placed?"
"Sorry, we don't know either," Yun Guang's tone became a little heavier, "Why are you asking this?"
"I just suddenly remembered... I want to ask," Zheng Tan's eyes swept over Xu Zichen's neck, and his tone immediately became relaxed, "Then I'll leave first, you guys catch up on your sleep."
Yun Guang looked puzzled, as if he had no idea what the person in front of him was here for.
Although the other party was still very vigilant, Zheng Tan felt secretly relieved.
He couldn't see clearly just now because he was sitting too far away, but now he finally saw clearly that the other person's neck was indeed intact. There were no wounds or scars on it, not even any neck wrinkles.
Maybe I really saw it wrong... he thought.
Zheng Tan breathed a sigh of relief and watched the exploration team members go upstairs.
The long-haired young man named Skao walked behind everyone.
As I passed him, my pace seemed to slow down a bit.
He thought something was wrong with Scario, so he looked up and wanted to ask him what was wrong.
Then the detective only saw an ambiguous smile on Scaro's lips, and then the blindfolded man next to Scaro passed by him, blocking his sight.
What is he laughing at?
Zheng Tan stood in the banquet hall, feeling a sense of panic and absurdity coming from nowhere.
Then he saw the long-haired young man turn around and hook the collar of the blindfolded man with his right hand, and the two men disappeared around the corner in a tangled mess.
Zheng Tan: ...Well, that’s okay.
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He was overthinking it.
Zheng Tan twitched his lips as he looked at the increasingly confrontational couple Ronghua and Fu Gui at the dining table, then looked at the killer Zhang San and his enemy Li Si who was probably also a killer, and felt that he might as well go back to his room and have a rest.
The atmosphere among this group of people is so weird and explosive that it is estimated that they will all die soon.
Zheng Tan felt relieved and walked towards the room.
As long as nothing happens tonight, he should be able to leave here soon.
It will be soon. It will be soon.
*
Unknown to him, the members of the exploration team returned to their rooms, but a few of them came out and gathered together again.
"How did you see it? How did you see it? Hurry, hurry, hurry." Guan Hongyan was almost dying of curiosity, but the miracle drug she had just used had not expired yet. Now she could only make lively movements with a paralyzed face, and only her eyes were still flashing with curiosity.
"As long as you notice a flaw, it's easy to deduce the answer," Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly, "Zheng Tan has quite a lot of flaws, but our attention has been drawn to Ronghua Fugui and Wang En Zheng Ju in the past few days."
"Stop keeping me in suspense and hurry up." Guan Hongyan had been patient for the entire morning and her curiosity was about to set in.
There were also voices of support on the barrage:
[Sister Yan'er, my mouth is yours. ]
[Ao Shen, please tell me, I am also very curious, how did you figure this out, how did you shift from the exploding identities and love, hate, and vengeance to this line of thinking? ]
[Sister Yan'er is so anxious that Aoshen is still playing with his fingers with the blindfolded man. ]
【What the hell is this blindfolded man...】
[The one next to him, can't you see him? ]
[Upstairs... I think everyone is probably asking what the hell this name is. ]
[I watched Sister Yaner anxiously for a whole morning and a whole afternoon, and was forced to watch Aoshen play with her leisurely.]
[Aoshen is not only teasing Sister Yan'er, he is also teasing us. 】
[There has never been a moment when I hated the evil taste of the God of Ao so much. 】
[Hate bad taste +1]
…
On the screen, Bai Jinshu had finally expressed most of Scarao's bad taste. He straightened his face, coughed lightly, and started to get down to business.
"Because at the beginning, wasn't Zheng Tan's identity revealed by himself? He said that his name could be found on Baidu."
On the morning of the death of architect Jian Zhu, Wang En had a conflict with Zheng Tan. He felt that Zheng Tan's style was damn similar to the detective in Scarao's memory. He was in a bad mood due to his morning grumpiness and did not give the other party a good face for a while, and directly pointed out the other party's identity.
So after Zheng Ju checked on Baidu, he said that Zheng Tan was indeed a very famous detective, and a great detective whose name could be found by simply searching on Baidu, so Bai Jinshu followed suit and checked.
As a result, an old news that had been dropped was found. Zheng Tan was charged with murder and was once listed as a suspect. However, the suspicion was dropped in the end and the case was closed in another way. The suspect Zheng Tan was naturally found not guilty.
But there is a problem with this process.
"What era is this?" Bai Jinshu touched his chin. "Why would an unofficial individual detective have an entry on Baidu?"
If you randomly ask a modern person who is the first person that comes to his mind when he sees the word "detective", most people will probably think of either Sherlock Holmes or some elementary school student who is the god of death.
But this is not the 19th or 20th century when the Internet was not well developed, nor is it Beihua Town where everyone is rushing to achieve sales results and dozens of murders occur every day. Why does Zheng Tan have an entry that can be searched on Baidu?
"Ah? Shouldn't there be one? Isn't this normal?" Guan Hongyan scratched her head in confusion. "Don't all detectives have entries?"
Um?
Yun Guang and the others all looked over there.
Guan Hongyan looked puzzled: "Don't you have any over there?"
"Our detectives and villains all have their own Baidu entries," she said weakly, "and some have their own fan clubs. If this vacation wasn't during the peak season, I might have bumped into some fans who came abroad in groups to try to meet them by chance..."
"Hongyan," Yun Guang said earnestly, "Zheng Tan doesn't look like a detective who can have an entry in your world, right? Generally speaking, most normal detectives in the normal world don't have entries."
“Neither do the villains,” he added.
"Where are the aliens?" Guan Hongyan blinked.
Yun Guang: "There are no aliens in the normal world."
Guan Hongyan: “…Oh, I see.”
She blinked silently.
Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows and continued calmly, "So there are two possibilities for this Baidu entry. One possibility is that this world is just like Guan Hongyan's world, and it is normal for Zheng Tan to have an entry."
"There is another one," he leaned back slightly, "this entry was made by Zheng Tan himself."
"His goal is to make everyone think that he is indeed a famous detective."
Putting aside other things, this identity at least won the trust of Wang En and Ronghua in the beginning. Even in the current situation, after seeing Zheng Ju dead, Ronghua's first reaction was that she didn't trust anyone and waited for Zheng Tan to come and check the body.
This is enough to prove the usefulness of this identity.
With the job of a detective, he can get first-hand information after all the murders happen, not to mention that apart from the murder accusation, Zheng Tan is almost independent of the love, hatred and grudges of Ronghua, Fu Gui, Wang En and Zheng Ju, just like the other members of the exploration team.
This simply gave him an aura of credibility.
This gave him a higher starting point than everyone else.
"But this doesn't mean he's in prison for the second time, right?" Xu Zichen held up his chin. "How did you know that?"
"Significance," Bai Jin said, "First, he had a very strong resistance to this castle on the first day he entered here."
Through the architect Jian Zhu, Ling Dai found out that his dissatisfaction was because Jian Zhu chose a castle where he couldn't speak the language, so he kept complaining to Jian Zhu.
But since we are all going abroad, isn’t it normal to have language barriers?
In other words, even if you find a hotel or somewhere else outside, the service staff there may not speak Chinese. The reason why Zheng Tan got angry is simply inexplicable.
On the first day, when they heard this reason, they originally thought that Zheng Tan and Jian Zhu might have had disagreements before arriving here, and this outburst was just a fuse. In fact, what Zheng Tan was expressing was not his dissatisfaction with the castle, but his dissatisfaction with Jian Zhu.
But what if, what he was dissatisfied with was indeed this castle... and not Jian Zhu?
"So his dissatisfaction is most likely because he had just managed to leave here last time, but he didn't expect that he would end up back in this castle and enter the second round of escape?" Guan Hongyan thought along this line of thought.
"Not entirely," Yun Guang pondered for a while, "If he knew that he would be chased away, why didn't he leave on the first day?"
According to Scario, Zheng Tan had forged a detective identity long ago and was obviously prepared to enter here again, so why was he so angry for no reason?
"Two possibilities," Bai Jinshu tapped the table with his knuckles. "First, he had no intention of entering right now. He came here by accident, but he knew that once he entered, he might not be able to leave. So even if he leaves now, it will be useless. Zheng Tan is just furious."
"Or maybe he actually did it on purpose. He was trying to drive Jian Zhu away in this way."
"Drive Jian Zhu away?" Lu Changfeng didn't expect the second possibility to be this.
"Yes, drive Jian Zhu away," Bai Jinshu stretched his neck slightly, "Among all the people, Jian Zhu seems to be the most innocent."
"Didn't you notice?" Bai Jinshu's eyes were full of amusement. "Everyone who appears here has characteristics that can be roughly summarized as good and bad."
"Take Ronghua for example. On the surface, she looks like a soft-hearted young lady who has never left the ivory tower. But before Fu Gui revealed it, who would have thought that her family background and the Rong Group actually started from the underworld."
"Fu Gui," he tapped the table with his knuckles, "he is a scheming marriage fraudster who forged his identity and used dishonorable means to seize Rong's shares. However, from his contempt and rejection of Wang En and Zheng Ju, we can see that he is surprisingly loyal to his marriage. If Rong Hua hadn't planned to break up with him, I'm afraid Fu Gui would have been able to continue pretending with her."
"What about Wang En..." Xu Zichen thought, "Wang En is a man who cheats on his wife and even takes his lover out on vacation. What's so good about him?"
"He," Bai Jinshu curled his lips, "Maybe it's a good thing that Wang En is not like Fu Gui. He has never coveted Fu Yi's property and the company he owns. He simply can't control his lower body."
"If he had thought about this, he probably wouldn't dare to cheat anymore."
"Hmm? Tell me about it, tell me about it." Xu Zichen suddenly became interested.
"Why do you think Zheng Ju agreed to Fu Yi's request and was willing to collect evidence of Wang En's cheating for her?" Bai Jinshu turned around and asked.
"Because she gave too much?" Guan Hongyan guessed.
"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head. "Let me ask you, if you are dating a rich man now, and his mother offers you one million to leave him, purely for the sake of money, will you agree?"
"No...right?" Guan Hongyan touched her chin. "One million is a little too little. I'm not short of money. Besides, if I keep dating a rich man, I'll definitely get more than one million."
"So why is Zheng Ju willing to collect evidence and ruin the future of his current financial sponsor Wang En just because Fu Yi offers the price?" Bai Jinshu knocked on the corner of the table with interest.
If it's just for money, a stable sponsor is always better than a sum of money that will run out.
Zheng Ju doesn't look like someone who can't figure out this account.
"It's because Fu Yi threatened him in other ways," Guan Hongyan suddenly realized, "She directly threatened Zheng Ju's personal safety and the Rong Group!"
Fu Gui said that the Rong Group’s fortune was not made cleanly.
And now, even the Rong Group, which Fu Gui said had been cleansed, was actually cooperating with the company that the architect had contracted the project for in money laundering.
That means it's completely unwashed!
If it were really clean, who would touch these things?
"Fu Gui said that the Rong family was able to clean up their money so quickly because he helped in the process back then," Bai Jinshu nodded, "So is there a possibility that Fu Gui didn't actually hand over all the money he had back then, so the Rong family is still cooperating with the money laundering company."
It's entirely possible.
Then, as Fu Gui's biological sister, would Fu Yi be able to use some of Fu Gui's not-so-clean forces with his money?
"That's why Zheng Ju agreed. He had to agree, otherwise his life would be threatened..." Xu Zichen's voice became thoughtful. "And if Wang En had the same idea as Fu Gui, he would immediately find that Fu Yi was someone he couldn't afford to offend. How could he dare to cheat on her?"
It can be said that even if he knew a little bit, he didn't dare to reveal his identity to Ronghua in front of Fu Gui, and he would be angry all night.
Given Wang En's character of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, he would not dare to do that if he knew.
Xu Zichen rubbed his temples, feeling that it was not easy for Wang En to live until yesterday.
How long has he been getting rude in front of Fu Yi? Fortunately, she has been able to endure it and even asked Zheng Ju to collect evidence in an orderly manner.
Well... maybe it's not that rule.
"It's not that easy for Fu Yi to do it," Bai Jinshu chuckled. "Outside is a society ruled by law. If you want to kill someone in a society ruled by law, you can't just do it with some connections."
No one understood this better than Skaol.
"But this place...is not necessarily a society ruled by law," he said, changing the subject. "I'm afraid Zheng Tan was badly hurt the last time he left here. This murder charge might have been brought out from here."
But the fact that the charges were dropped shows that they could not find evidence that Zheng Tan really killed anyone.
In other words, after you successfully leave here, even if others suspect you, they will not be able to provide any conclusive evidence.
This is a natural place for revenge.
"If someone gathers all his enemies here, he can catch them all in one fell swoop."
"Could this person be Zheng Tan?" Guan Hongyan has already started to speculate, "Because he knew that only one person could leave after entering here, so he redesigned a plan after leaving, intending to invite all those who have grudges against him in, and then let them kill each other before he leaves?"
On the surface, this man seemed to have nothing to do with these people, except for Jian Zhu. So he was so angry at the only architect he didn't invite at the beginning. Did he not want to send innocent people to their deaths?
Who would have thought that the first person to die would be Jian Zhu.
"Who will be the next to die?" Xu Zichen seemed to be thinking, "Will it be Ronghua or Fu Gui? Can they both die now? If they die, what will happen to the clues about their identities? We can't just rely on Zhang San and Li Si to reveal their identities, right?"
If this is the case, where is the professional ethics of professional killers and hired bodyguards...
"Who knows." Bai Jinshu raised his eyes slightly.
Sitting at the long dinner table, looking at the two people who were already arguing with each other to the point of white-hot, Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly in his heart.
Ronghua already had the intention to kill.
Even if she was a spoiled young lady, the Rong family would not be cleansed until she came of age.
Even if one is influenced by these people, one will also pick up some of their characteristics. The stupidity he or she has done in the past is pointed out in public, and his or her life is still in the hands of the other party. If Ronghua is smart enough, she will know that Fu Gui did not bring anyone with him, and she brought people with her, and she is in a place where she will not be held accountable for killing someone. Her best choice now is to kill directly.
But Ronghua couldn't beat Fu Gui, otherwise she wouldn't have been deceived for so long.
Bai Jinshu shifted his gaze and lightly fell on Fu Gui.
Ronghua's disguise might fool others, but it certainly couldn't fool Fu Gui. He must have known that Ronghua wanted to kill him. He might even know that Li Si was brought by Ronghua.
Then through Li Si, he can easily locate Zhang San.
Zhang San is the killer.
As a killer, you can take orders as long as you have money. Who says Fu Gui has no one available?
These two people were waiting for the next night to come as if it was a ritual.
"Rice noodle rolls," Bai Jinshu waved at Lu Changfeng, and when he looked over, he pointed at Ronghua and Fu Gui and said in a relaxed tone, "Guess, who of these two will die first?"
"Uh... Fu Gui?" Lu Changfeng was very single-minded. "Didn't Ronghua bring Li Si with him?"
"No." Bai Jinshu shook his head.
"Ronghua," Guan Hongyan touched her chin, "She can't beat Fu Gui."
She sees through it.
"That's not right." Bai Jinshu also shook his head.
"Believe it or not," he pointed at Ronghua and Fugui with his fork, "tonight, these two people will die together."
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New concept: living together and dying together
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