0023 Chapter 1: Confessions of the Dead (Section 17)
Seeing that she was the last detective invited, the girl who had a strong presence at the dinner but was unknown to anyone, Navis breathed a sigh of relief:
"Qu Yun? It's already time for you to come in? Damn it, there may not be enough time! It has been confirmed that I am the real murderer in history. Let's split up and find the [victim]..."
"Yiko, why do you want to help you?" The silver-haired girl put on an expression as if she was looking at a fool, and tapped her ear lightly: "Don't forget, here, we are competitors."
Naviston was stunned, and randomly and keenly captured the small movements of the silver-haired girl. Then, she seamlessly changed into a sullen face without any lag: "Don't forget the rules of the game, she hasn't been killed yet.
But before she was killed, the position of all of us should always be the same."
After that, she ran towards the hall stairs and tried to block Zhen Cheng in the second floor corridor.
The silver-haired girl who was left at the door glanced across the rather embarrassed-looking reception room, stopping at the machine that was not stopped by Navis because of her sudden interruption.
At this moment, the headphones are still playing a young male voice that ordinary people would never hear without wearing them:
"Although you strongly advocate your crime, in my opinion, it is still just nonsense. Regardless of the fact that your motive for committing the crime is completely incomprehensible, even if you make up a sufficient reason, your confession is fundamentally unreliable.
There is no credibility whatsoever.”
"Why?!" The woman's voice lost its gentleness and became extremely distorted.
"Because the cause of death of the young lady was not suffocation, but poisonous gas."
With a slight smile on her lips, the silver-haired girl did not touch the machine and tape on the table, but turned around leisurely and left the empty room.
She hummed a pleasant tune softly and floated lightly through the hall and entered the kitchen on the left. Her footsteps made no sound, and it felt as if her footsteps never really touched the ground, but stood firmly on the ground.
In a layer of invisible air; it seems as if the owner of the footsteps is a weightless ghost.
So much so that Zhen Cheng, who was walking backwards through the lobby on the second floor at the same time, didn't even notice the fact that the last player had entered the room. Even without the background noise of the heavy rain, there probably wouldn't be any difference in the result.
The kitchen is no different from the situation left when Zhen Cheng cooked the dolls not long ago. The only obvious difference is that there is a person lying on the long table used for chopping meat.
It was an old man with a lot of blood on his body. His cane was picked up by someone and placed casually beside him.
"How are you? Mr. Epilens, are you feeling better?" The girl at the door said, with the same beautiful voice that people will never forget after hearing it once.
The old man lying on the chopping board like a corpse suddenly opened his eyes. They were still covered with red bloodshot eyes, but now there was less indescribable fanaticism.
"Yes, Miss Qu. I'm sorry for causing you trouble." The old detective's voice seemed a little dry.
"Do you still remember what you just did?" Qu Yun pressed the skirt of her dress behind her with both hands and sat on the stool where the old detective sat when she entered the kitchen when she confronted Zhen Cheng, giving people the illusion of being dignified and well-behaved.
The old detective just frowned as if he was in pain. He sat up from the butcher case, pressed his temples and said, "I'm not sure, it's like a dream. In the dream, I seemed to have killed a man in a kimono.
Girl..."
Having said this, Epilons suddenly stopped talking, and then looked at the girl in front of him warily.
Regardless of whether it was a dream or something, given the current context, the most reasonable explanation is the clue provided by the organizer. Saying it now is equivalent to showing your trump card to your opponent for free observation...
Obviously, Epilens has the same consciousness or reasons as Zhen Cheng. Even though he has clearly realized that things are starting to go off the rails, he still never gives up his determination to play the game to the end.
"If you are worried that you have failed to 'successfully restore history,' then there is no need. When Yiko entered the mansion, she found fragments of Miss [Victim]'s Hanfu at the bottom of the hall stairs.
It was possible that it was cut off by the scary-looking tree shears. And these things were also found in the same place,"
The girl on the stool looked at the old detective with a smile, and threw the key with a large handle and a sharp tip back to the old detective, as well as the [Baron]'s identity card. The card was apparently also lost to the irrational old detective along with many other things.
They threw them downstairs together.
"If you guessed correctly, this key is your special prop. Judging from the situation at the scene, you should have completed the 'kill'."
No one knows how the girl who entered the scene at the end inferred the events she had never experienced, but Epilens herself knew the truth just as Qu Yun said.
His condition of "using special props to complete the kill" was just to throw the key at the [victim]. If the scene was really as Qu Yun said, then there is a high probability that he had indeed completed the "history" during the period when his memory was confused.
reduction".
After a little peace of mind, the old detective saw a hint of loneliness on the girl's face, and her lips parted slightly: "I heard that Scarry had played a very interesting game, and Yiko was quite looking forward to it. Unexpectedly, it was actually better than expected.
is much more boring.
As the actor of the last role [Pianist], Yiko's identity has gained a special function - using the sound of the piano to announce the end time of the game. How about you, who have finished playing, be ready for the end of the game.
Yet?"
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Zhen Cheng, who ran all the way to the second floor, did not continue to run away in a panic. Instead, he leaned on the stairs and began to check his injuries. There were stairs in between, so if he was caught up here, he would have enough time to escape.
The footsteps of the previous pursuit confirmed to her that Epilens, who had become abnormal, had not solved his leg problem, which meant that if he saw the opponent appearing under the stairs, it would definitely be too late to escape.
In order to support her hobby of detective activities, Zhen Cheng once took a first aid-related course at school. She endured the severe pain throughout her body and inspected every damaged part of her body one by one.
It was confirmed that there were no fractures. The most serious injury was the dislocation of the left thumb when rolling down the stairs. The heavy blow to the abdomen did not seem to have any impact on the internal organs. This can be examined in detail later. It will not affect the game now. As for the dozens of injuries all over the body
There are bloody scrapes everywhere... now is not the time to worry about infection.
Wiping away the painful tears from the corners of his eyes, Zhen Cheng laughed a few times to himself, then took a breath of cold air due to the pain in his abdomen, and curled up on the floor.
Sure enough, everything in the world has its own value. Without paying a corresponding price, it is impossible to get equivalent gains. Although Miss Zhen, who is pampered and pampered, has experienced many storms and waves since she was a child, it is really painful to experience this kind of pain.
First time.
Just as the pain subsided and he tried to get up from the ground, Zhen Cheng once again saw that the colors in his field of vision were covered with a gray scene.