Chapter 16 of 48

Chapter 16

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Suddenly, Jiang Shuyi raised her head and hatefully stared at Lin Huiru. Veins of blood, and even more complex emotions: unwillingness, resentment, and jealousy, filled her eyes…

……

Lin Huiru shifted her gaze. Originally, she’d wanted to continue saying more, but she was stuck for a moment: “Humph, anyway… anyway now Yang Ge has said that I’m a good person, and even Shen Mu said that I was a good person, so you don’t need to doubt my identity at all!” Saying this, Lin Huiru seemed to have regained her confidence, and squinted while saying, “So what if my speech isn’t good? Of course, as a good person I dare to state my mind, unlike some people who don’t dare to say anything. Can these people actually say that there’s no demon in their hearts?”

“Okay,” After Lin Huiru ended her speech, it was Li Xuesong’s turn, “Shen Mu must be an eliminated killer, there is no need to question this. The last killer also isn’t No. 8. Yesterday, Sun Jieqing was killed and although he didn’t state it clearly, he had definitely checked No. 1, Lin Huiru, the day before, so there’s no need to say these things anymore. Yesterday, Shen Mu’s logic seemed acceptable, but was actually very contradictory. The reason he presented to justify his suspicion of Yang Ge was that No. 1 was a killer. Once he could no longer keep his lies consistent, he also said that No. 1 was a good person. He must’ve been a killer and his killer teammates are certainly also present.”

Li Xuesong’s words made the atmosphere even more tense, yet Li Xuesong himself remained unmoved: “The reason the killers killed Sun Jieqing was simply because Sun Jieqing was the last police officer, so they got rid of him to hide their final member’s identity. This person must be either No. 2, No. 9 or No. 10 since they voted for Shen Mu on the second day.” Li Xuesong paused. “When Shen Mu spoke yesterday, there was a particular detail which I don’t know if you guys noticed.”

The moment Li Xuesong said this, everyone was a little confused, and Shen Xin’s pupils shrank slightly.

Li Xuesong said: “When Shen Mu spoke yesterday, he talked to No. 2 and also to No. 10, so the only person he didn’t talk to was No. 9. When people are desperate, they’ll try to pull every possible vote. Sun Jieqing, Lin Huiru and I were all firmly on Yang Ge’s side from the very beginning. He knew that he couldn’t move our votes and it’s understandable that he didn’t talk to us. But for the three people who helped him in voting on the second day, he would definitely try to rope in their votes. So why didn’t Shen Mu talk to No. 9?” Li Xuesong’s voice abruptly became cold, intently staring at Liu Bo. “Because you are his teammate. You’ve arranged the strategy long ago. Naturally, he doesn’t need to talk to you!”

Liu Bo’s countenance changed. If it wasn’t for the restriction set by the rules, he might’ve already rushed to fight with Li Xuesong, but Li Xuesong stopped looking at him, instead watching the remaining three players who could vote, and continued: “Although Jiang Shuyi helped Shen Mu in voting yesterday, but with Shen Mu’s logic, how couldn’t he expect that he was going to be eliminated? If he continued to ask his teammates to vote for him at this time, what would be the difference between that and suicide? Compared to Jiang Shuyi, Liu Bo is more suspicious. As early as the first day, he wanted to use his starting position to lead the vote so that the bad-tempered Lin Huiru could be eliminated in order to once again change sides and sneak into the group of good people. It also led to him having the last speech today, so that the civilian, Jiang Shuyi, could be successfully voted out. That was your real plan!”

Li Xuesong solemnly said: “Indeed, Jiang Shuyi’s behavior isn’t that of an innocent person’s, but she isn’t the last killer. Instead, she is the target that the killers have chosen to forcibly vote out and Liu Bo is the real killer! Today, Liu Bo will be the last speaker. Everyone, don’t listen to him—no matter what he says! Follow my vote and vote Liu Bo out today. This way, I believe the game will end! If you vote incorrectly again today, even though the game can still be won, two more people will have been eliminated. It still isn’t known what variations the punishment turntable has, so how would you know that the one who’ll die tonight won’t be yourself?”

Li Xuesong’s last sentence changed Lin Huiru’s indifferent complexion, making her re-examine Jiang Shuyi and Liu Bo, her expression both clouded and unsure.

Li Xuesong’s speaking time ended, and the green light moved in front of No.10 Shen Xin.

Shen Xin looked at Jiang Shuyi, seemingly at a loss, before turning to look at Liu Bo and Li Xuesong. It appeared as though Li Xuesong’s speech had completely disrupted her train of thought: “This… I believe that Brother No.11 is a good person and wouldn’t want to harm us. Furthermore, since the people on both sides said No. 1 is innocent, she has a high probability of being a good person.” When mentioning Lin Huiru, Shen Xin carried a bit of reluctance and unwillingness.

“I …” Shen Xin finally gritted her teeth, “Brother No. 11 chose to believe that No. 4 was a member of the police from the very beginning. Now that even the sleepy brother has been eliminated, it means that No. 4 must’ve been one of the police, which is to say that Brother No. 11 made the right choice from the beginning. Then, compared to my own judgment, I believed in Brother No. 11’s judgement more.”At the end, Shen Xin’s voice became more resolute, and was also no longer hesitant. She directly ended her speech, making the green light shift toward No. 9 Liu Bo’s position in advance.

“You guys are all joking, right?” Liu Bo’s face was red for a second and then white in the next. He didn’t become angry, instead he smiled. “All X* are poisonous?! Yes, I supported Shen Mu on the second day, but was there anything wrong with his speech that day? Laozi** believed that he was sincerely helping us, and it was only then that I voted for him! After Yang Ge was eliminated, no matter how stupid I was, I still knew that I’d been decieved. Yesterday his speech was heavily embellished. Could Laozi believe him even for a bit? If I was his teammate, with his speech being like that, wouldn’t I have voted for him?”

*Written this way in the raws

**For those who don’t know, Laozi is a way of arrogantly referring to oneself as an ‘old master’. Of course Lui Bo isn’t old but in China age denotes a level of superiority, so this statement is rather impolite.

Liu Bo spoke too fast, and for a moment, he choked. Resolutely taking a breath, he said: “I’ll ask you, under that kind of situation, who’d vote for Shen Mu aside from his own teammates?! If you really aren’t sure, wouldn’t you just abstain from voting? Despite it being so obvious, you can still vote out the wrong person. *** if you want to die, don’t pull everyone else to die together!” Liu Bo panted heavily, “Everyone vote for her! Vote for No. 2, understood?”

Seeing Li Xuesong’s indifferent expression and Jiang Shuyi’s glare towards him, Liu Bo slammed the phone in his hand: “Okay, vote for me, all of you vote for me! Then everyone can finish playing!”

Liu Bo ended his speech ahead of time, but found that no one had moved. Only then did he in hindsight remember that he actually wasn’t the last speaker.

No. 8 was still quietly lying on the table. The faint green light illuminated his face as though what was happening had no relation to him. With time as a buffer, Liu Bo also became somewhat cool-headed, a trace of remorse flashing across his eyes. Picking up the tablet as though he wanted to conceal himself, he stared at the grayed out voting interface, no longer looking at anyone else.

Li Xuesong’s expression remained unchanged and no one could see through him. Lin Huiru, who was always domineering and arrogant, became a little uneasy at this time, seeming to understand that today’s vote was extremely important. Shen Xin appeared as though she was remaining calm and collected, but her heart was almost jumping out of her chest. Li Xuesong probably wouldn’t change his vote and Jiang Shuyi and Liu Bo should vote for one another, so who should she vote for with this vote? She’d previously said that she would vote for Liu Bo like Li Xuesong. It should be better for her if she didn’t change her vote, right?

Shen Xin unknowingly became lost in thought. If she was replaced with her brother, he wouldn’t feel so tangled.

Thinking of Shen Mu, Shen Xin’s thoughts drifted further and further away. When they were young, their mother died of stomach cancer, and their father could always give himself the best in life but didn’t know how to take care of his children. And Shen Mu… Her elder brother also seemed to find this little girl* very troublesome, so even if there was no traffic, he still lived at school, not coming home much. However, every time he came back on the weekend, he’d bring back all kinds of delicious food. Although the siblings weren’t close, they could still be regarded as being quite intimate… Afterwards, as they grew older, the two began to argue more instead. By all appearances, her brother seemed to have started feeling that arguing with a little girl was too embarrassing, so Shen Mu had become increasingly impatient and perfunctory. Shen Xin was also quite proud and didn’t want to pay attention to her brother, so instead the two became more and more unfamiliar with each other…

*Referring to herself

Meeting with her brother in the game this time was something that Shen Xin didn’t expect. Originally, Shen Xin had wanted to apologize to Shen Mu, but when she really saw him, she instinctively talked back to him as a result of her conditioned reflexes. She regretted doing so each time, but when she opened her mouth again…

Her brother… felt different… The current brother gave her a sense of omnipotence, causing her to feel at ease in his warmth. Was it because he’d lost his memory? Or was it because he’d walked to the gates of hell?

Shen Xin suddenly snapped back to attention, the fourth day’s voting had already begun. Shen Xin finally decided not to change her vote since Sister No. 2 looked a little easier to handle when compared to Brother No. 9…

Three minutes once again determined another person’s fate.

Those who voted for No. 2 Jiang Shuyi: No. 1 Liu Huiru and No. 9 Liu Bo;

Those who voted for No. 9 Liu Bo: No. 2 Jiang Shuyi, No. 10 Kexin and No. 11 Li Xuesong;

Players who abstained from voting were: No. 8;

No. 9 Liu Bo was voted out on the fourth day.

Liu Bo stood up abruptly: “Hahahahaha…” The bout of mad laughter was forcibly interrupted as Liu Bo collapsed.

“The game, it should be over right?” Jiang Shuyi asked anxiously.

“Is…is it over?” Shen Xin looked around in a panic.

“There must be a sign that it has ended!” Lin Huiru stood up abruptly and walked around, as though she was trying to find something.

“No,” Li Xuesong finally shook his head. “The game isn’t over yet.” After speaking, Li Xuesong picked up Liu Bo from the ground and left without looking back.

“I…” Lin Huiru kicked a stool with her foot, “I said it wasn’t so complicated! You guys just had to make it so troublesome!” After she said this, something seemed to come to mind and her complexion became deathly pale. Lin Huiru looked at Jiang Shuyi in horror, large beads of sweat trickling down her delicate face. She stayed for 2 more seconds, before she turned and ran away.

Darn! Shen Xin’s heart thumped, before pretending to be equally scared. She covered her mouth and ran out after Lin Huiru, but her heart continued to sink.

If she followed the plan, Li Xuesong should be killed tonight, so that tomorrow she’d vote out Jiang Shuyi together with Lin Huiru, and the killer team could win. But… today, Lin Huiru voted for Jiang Shuyi. If Jiang Shuyi was the last killer, would she choose to kill Li Xuesong first but not Lin Huiru? If Jiang Shuyi thought of this, then she’d be in danger.

But if she killed Lin Huiru first…Shen Xin became even more uneasy. Li Xuesong wasn’t as foolish as Lin Huiru, so leaving Li Xuesong alive for another day might mean that she’d be the one voted out tomorrow.

Running back to her room, Shen Xin felt that something wasn’t right: “Brother No. 8!” The living players must return to their rooms at night!

Shen Xin quickly ran downstairs again, only to see Jiang Shuyi dragging the unconscious No. 8 upstairs.

“Ah…” Shen Xin almost blurted out a ‘thank you’, but she quickly bit her own tongue, “I, I’ll help sister to do it together!”

“En.” Jiang Shuyi seemed to have calmed down, and even gave Shen Xin a friendly smile.

Shen Xin became even more tangled. Tonight’s lucky choice, one or the other, in the end it should be…

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