"That's what I said …"
In the dead silence, Guan Nan was the only one who spoke. His voice was soft and tight like a spider's web in the dark. "Someone among us wanted to kill someone, but you all thought I was being paranoid."
No one answered her. Only the messy and heavy breathing of the crowd could be heard. It was like the heatwaves coming and going from the east to the west, muddy and murky in the darkness.
Doctor Chen sat behind the table with his head hung low. The white circle of light shone on him, and the surroundings were dark. It was as if he was an actor sitting under the spotlight, waiting for the next scene to end.
"I don't understand …"
After a few seconds, Jiang Tian staggered two steps toward the circle of light. Before she could get close, she stopped. "I don't understand … Why? What's your motive for killing him? "
This was also something that Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure out.
If the killer's goal was to sabotage the cooperation, win the game, and get out of the game, but Doctor Chen had already explained the theory behind the recording system. Even without him, the system could still operate … Could it be that the killer was trying to send a warning to everyone?
Would the people who participated in the recording system be in danger?
"Don't move," Lin Sanjiu reminded them. "I'm going to check."
As she said that, she took two steps forward and bent down to pick up a flashlight. Then, she walked closer to the table while someone sucked in a breath.
"You know how to check?" Wen Ya followed closely behind. He didn't take Lin Sanjiu's instructions to heart. "How many corpses have you seen? Don't … Don't mess it up."
"Step back," Lin Sanjiu shot him a look over her shoulder.
Wen Ya stood still and didn't move back.
Lin Sanjiu ignored him and shone the flashlight on Doctor Chen's body. She scanned him from head to toe. There were no obvious wounds on Doctor Chen's body. Lin Sanjiu grabbed the corpse's hair and slowly lifted his head. When the flashlight shone on his face, the people behind her gasped in shock.
Without a doubt, Doctor Chen was killed by someone else's Evolved Ability.
Under his half-lidded eyelids, as well as his slightly opened mouth, there was now a frozen pitch-black darkness. His eyeballs were already covered by a layer of darkness. Lin Sanjiu used the flashlight to touch his half-opened lips. She could only hear the sound of hitting something hard. She couldn't find any teeth or tongue.
If Dr. Chen's body was a bag, the inside of the bag was filled with black "cement."
She frowned and thought for a while, but she could not remember if she had seen a similar ability in the honeycomb cubicle. At that time, there were too many abilities listed on the screen, and she had never paid attention to such a direct killing ability.
Lin Sanjiu did not let go of Doctor Chen's head immediately. Instead, she allowed Doctor Chen's head to fall back to its original position. "Lin Sanjiu did not let go of Doctor Chen immediately. Instead, she allowed his head to fall back to its original position.
"But … there was no one around Doctor Chen just now," Ya Mu said blankly. "Can the evolved ability be released from a distance?"
Lin Sanjiu did not answer him. She picked up the paper on the table and stared at it for a while.
"Hey, don't just look at it." Wen Ya took two steps forward and reached out her hand as she asked, "What's written on the paper? Is this the message he left before he died? "
Lin Sanjiu raised her hand and snatched the paper away from his hand. "Don't touch it. Everyone, go to the middle and look at it together. "
Wen Ya had thin eyebrows and narrow eyes. His facial features were like sesame seeds scattered on a pancake. Other than his slightly drooping eyelids, no one could tell that he was very unhappy when he stared at Lin Sanjiu.
"The things written on the paper are the pen, paper, bags, biscuits and mineral water he took from the hotel … That's all." When Lin Sanjiu saw that everyone had moved closer to her, she placed the paper on a chair and aimed the white light at it. She said, "All of you have seen this in the previous beach scenario. This is the piece of paper that Doctor Chen used to make his records."
"That's right. It was so dark just now," Vanvolt said, "He couldn't have left a message."
When everyone was still craning their necks to look at the paper, Guan Nan's voice rang out from afar, "How dare you stand so close to him? Have you forgotten? The murderer might be standing right next to you. "
Everyone jerked their heads up and looked at each other. Then, they scrambled away from each other like a nest of startled insects. Lin Sanjiu recalled that when she was first rushed into this pocket dimension, everyone was like this. They were all on guard against each other.
"Does the murderer … not want us to continue with the recording system?" Eider Down asked softly as he hid in the blurred border between the flashlight and the darkness, "Otherwise, why would he kill Doctor Chen?"
"I'm very scared now," Hana stood in the darkness and cursed in a low voice, "Lunatic …"
Jiang Tian was the closest to Lin Sanjiu. It was only when Jiang Tian wiped her face that Lin Sanjiu realized that Jiang Tian might have been crying. "What should we do now?" Jiang Tian asked with a trembling voice, "Don't … don't remember anymore?"
Life in the Twelve Worlds Centrum wasn't easy, but to these ordinary people, the shock and fear of the death of their comrade far exceeded their psychological endurance. Even though Lin Sanjiu kept persuading them to calm down, their emotions were still on the verge of going out of control. Ya Mu took out his paper from his hotel bag and threw it away as if he had been electrocuted. He shouted, "I don't remember anymore. You all saw it. I'm throwing the paper away!"
Once someone took the lead, there was no stopping the others from following suit. Guan Nan demanded an explanation from Jiang Tian, Roab looked around for more flashlights, Wen Ya went closer to Doctor Chen's body and examined it carefully, and Eider Down kept yelling for everyone to calm down … Lin Sanjiu felt her head throbbing with pain and disappointment. For a moment, she didn't know what to do, and she didn't want to do anything.
She turned to look at Doctor Chen's body. The system he designed was ended by his own death in less than 30 minutes.
"I got it. There's a lamp here," Roab shouted excitedly. It was as if he could save Doctor Chen's life as long as he found that small rechargeable lamp.
After a few more lights were lit, everyone seemed to have gradually calmed down. None of them dared to look at Doctor Chen's body, and none of them dared to approach each other. They either stood or sat by the wall. The commotion gradually turned into a heavy silence.
After a while, Hana suddenly strode into the middle of the room.
"Look carefully," she shouted in a deep voice. She placed both of her hands on a plastic chair. As she pressed on the back of the chair, white smoke rose from it.
After a while, white smoke rose. When she raised her hand again, the back of the chair had disappeared, as if it had turned into thick, steaming smoke and disappeared.
"This is the Evolved Ability I chose," Hana looked around and said provocatively, "If each of you show me your Evolved Ability, we will know who killed Doctor Chen."
Jiang Tian, who had always prided herself on being smart, let out an "Ah." She didn't expect that she was one step slower than Hana.
"I definitely won't cooperate," a voice suddenly said from a distant corner.
Lin Sanjiu looked toward the source of the voice and realized that the person who spoke was the rat-faced man who had been avoiding everyone since the previous scene.
"I didn't kill Doctor Chen," he crossed his arms and stuck close to the corner. It seemed like he hadn't moved since he entered the room. "But, it's precisely because I'm not the one who killed Doctor Chen that I can't expose my ability. I can't even show my wealth. How can you ask me to show my ability to protect myself to the murderer? "
Hana was anxious and angry. Just when she was about to speak, the man with the primitive forehead suddenly shouted, "The scene — the scene is changing."
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