Chapter 39

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“Brother Tang, if we hadn’t met during the Suspended Life Game, I really would have liked to become friends with you.” A trace of surprise flashed across Su Yingxing’s eyes, but he spoke sincerely.

Although Tang Youchen was an optimist, he was not a simple person. After thinking a little, he understood the meaning behind Su Yingxing’s words and immediately laughed: “That is easy to say! We can be friends back in reality! Add my QQ* number: 12345678, after this round or you can wait until all ten games are over.”

*T/N: QQ – a Chinese social media platform. Kind of similar to Skype.

“Count me in.” Shen Mu clinked glasses with Tang Youchen and toasted him.

“Then I also want in!” Xie You said immediately.

“Why are you joining the excitement? This is the friendship between men!” Shen Mu casually teased her.

Tang Youchen didn’t feel that anything was wrong, but Su Yingxing looked at them in surprise, shocked by their closeness. Since when had Xie You and Shen Mu become so familiar with each other?

A trace of surprise flashed across Xie You’s visage, and she suddenly lifted her hand to rub her forehead, covering her eyes as though relaxing. After a few seconds, Xie You lowered her arm, and with a slight smile on her face, she replied in the same casual tone: “Well then, you guys can play by yourselves.”

After two glasses of wine water, Tang Youchen had become more comfortable. Then, having thought of something, he spoke to Shen Mu who was sitting opposite him: “Shen Mu, thank you again for saving me in the forest, otherwise I would have been done for. Next time, if we have another chance to meet, I will definitely try to save you should you need it!”

Shen Mu felt his heart warm, and he couldn’t help smiling: “Thank you Brother Tang, but it’s better if we don’t meet. Hopefully, all of us here today won’t encounter each other again until the end of the game.”

Tang Youchen raised both hands to express his agreement. Suddenly, he took a closer look at Shen Mu, as though he had suddenly thought of something: “Hey, you don’t say, Shen Mu. Earlier, I felt that you were a bit like a friend of mine. It’s not that you look alike… Anyway, it’s fate that we had the opportunity to sit together today, and you’ve also saved my life! Regardless of whether I have a chance to be your friend in the future, I will never forget your kindness and this fate between us.”

Full of wine water, everyone prepared to leave.

“X… Ah, No. 3. Aren’t you going down?” Seeing that Xie You hadn’t moved, Shen Mu couldn’t help asking. He almost slipped up after having a full meal. It was easy to make mistakes when you had a full stomach since the blood that was supposed to go to your brain was directed elsewhere instead…

“You go down first, I have a little something that I want to ask No. 12, Mr Tang.” Xie You said in a slightly mysterious manner.

“Ah? Ask me?” Tang Youchen was happy.

Su Yingxing, who had already stood up, quickly sat down again.

“Don’t wait for me, you go up first No. 11!” Tang Youchen said kindly.

Who was waiting for you… Su Yingxing saw that Xie You was looking at him, her eyes shining brightly but silent. Knowing that his junior sister would not speak while he was there, he could only get up helplessly, before looking at Tang Youchen with a gaze full of hidden meaning that the latter did not notice. For some reason, when Su Yingxing looked at Tang Youchen’s cheerful smile, his heart was suddenly full of envy. It was not, however, because Xie You wanted to speak with him.

After Shen Mu and Su Yingxing left, Tang Youchen asked Xie You with interest: “So, beautiful lady, what did you want to ask?”

“There’s nothing much, I just thought that you were very handsome during your speech today and wanted to ask you about your height, star sign and age.”

“Thank you,” Tang Youchen was happy, “My height is a perfect 180 cm, neither tall nor short. I weigh 70 kg and am neither fat nor thin. Age 24, majoring in electrical engineering, star sign… what is the star sign for December 11th?”

“It’s Sagittarius.”

“Oh yes, Sagittarius. Anything else you want to know, little lady?”

“Nothing else, I mostly just wanted to ask you those things. Oh right,” Xie You, as though it had just occurred to her, asked a little curiously, “You said just now that you had a friend who was similar to No. 2. What is that friend’s name?”

“Oh him! I haven’t seen him for a long time.” Recalling this good friend of his, Tang Youchen’s smile unconsciously deepened, but he spoke with disdain, “That bastard hasn’t contacted me recently, and after going abroad, he is like an uncontrollable feral dog. Oh yes, his name is Xie Yan, do you know him?”

……

“Achoo!” Shen Mu, who had just returned to his room, suddenly felt his nose itch. Strange, did he catch a cold?

……

“I don’t know him.” Xie You stuck out her tongue, “I was just a little curious, and casually asked. I still think that Mr Tang is the most interesting.”

“That’s right!” Tang Youchen nodded immediately. “Ah yes, I just remembered. I don’t seem to know your name yet?”

Xie You’s eyes fixated on a crack located in the right corner of the table. What should she be called… She suddenly smiled: “My name is Shen You.”

……

The second night.

Since he had not received a Werewolf position, Shen Mu, as Cupid, did not need to stay up late on the second night. For now, it was basically the same as being a closed-eyed civilian——until Cupid’s death, he would not need to do anything at night.

This was the second night, so of course, the Wolves hadn’t been completely wiped out.

Shen Mu lay on the bed. The Witch was still alive, and the antidote had not yet been used. It stood to reason that he would not die tonight. After all, the Witch could no longer save themselves. Even the most selfish person would want to save the Seer. Everyone here was an intelligent adult. Even if they didn’t know how to play, they should still be able to think of that…

No. 1’s* bloodless face suddenly appeared before Shen Mu’s eyes.

*T/N: just in case you’ve forgotten, no. 1 is the girl Shen Mu theorised was austistic and who doesn’t speak much, hence Shen Mu finds it hard to determine her identity

She should be able to think of that… right?

If No. 1 really was the Witch, and she did not save him when he was killed, there was nothing that he could do… in that case he could only hope that Xie You could carry his sister to victory.

Unfortunately, the Couple was too large a target. Shen Mu could not help giving a bitter smile. Moreover, Xie You had spoken up for his sister today and this act of helping her would attract others’ attention. His younger sister was now the focal point. Even if Xie You no longer continued to help her, today’s speech may have already caused them to fall under suspicion.

In order to safely overcome this hurdle, Shen Mu, as the “Seer”, must test his sister tomorrow and make her into golden water——after all, the “Seer” could not be Cupid, and definitely was not a member of the third party. If his junior sister, Xie You, could prove herself to be a good person, even if the Couple was later exposed, they could present themselves as a Couple consisting of two good people linked together. Then, as long as the last Wolf was thrown out, no one at the scene could threaten the third party anymore——after all, when the Wolves were eliminated, the third party would be able to continue killing while blaming the nightly deaths on a leftover Wolf that had escaped detection.

Shen Mu began to recall a memory.

……

Before Shen Mu had left to go to school during the day, Shen Xin had sat on the round stool next to the shoe rack by the door, watching him change his clothes.

Sensing that she was feeling slightly discomforted by his departure, Shen Mu gently patted her head: “It’s okay, don’t be afraid. Just act according to what we discussed earlier, you can do it.”

“En, I know,” Shen Xin quickly replied, “When I don’t speak well, I’ll just cry in a scared manner and say that I really am a good person, not a wolf. While I cry, I will also say that I’m terrified, and continuously swear that I’m not a wolf! I remember all of it!”

“En,” Shen Mu nodded. “You are a little child. What everyone wants in this game is the ultimate victory, not randomly voting people out. And once you’ve kept yourself alive for an extra day, some people may feel that you spoke badly because you were so young and didn’t really know how to play.”

……

The memory ended. As long as his younger sister continued to cry tomorrow it would be fine. Xie You had already provided her logical support today. If he changed who he intended to check again, and gave her another chance, it would no longer seem so sudden and abrupt.

Therefore, if he wanted to achieve victory in this game, he must not die tonight.

With that being said… he couldn’t control his fate.

And what about the Seer? Shen Mu couldn’t let go of this variable. The abnormal circumstances regarding the real Seer were like a timed bomb hanging above his head.

Lin Huiru, who had died on the first day, could not have been the Seer. Otherwise, she would have definitely revealed it in her death speech. In other words, during the speeches today, the Seer must have been alive and present——unless its card had already been discarded.

Shen Mu had not forgotten: after all, the game included a Robber——if the Robber was facing a choice between two God cards, or one God and one Wolf card, one of the God cards could be buried.

The possibilities needed to be examined separately. In the best-case scenario, No. 10 was a Robber and received a Wolf card and a Seer card. She buried the Seer, and because she knew that there would be no Seer at the scene, she relaxed her vigilance and made a big loophole in her speech, leading to her demise. If this was the case and there was no real Seer anymore, he would have no problem being the ‘real’ Seer.

In the worst-case scenario, the Robber had been given a choice between two God cards, had chosen another God card and had buried the Seer. This situation was divided into two cases. One was that the player who received the Robber card did not know how to play and did not understand the importance of the Seer in the game, so they chose another God card. This situation was also good. Although the novice halo may play an unexpected role, when the Hunter or other skilled players doubted Shen Mu’s identity, he, by using reverse logic and charismatic speaking style, could make the Robber seem like a Wolf. There would still be quite a decent chance of winning.

In the worst-case scenario, an experienced player, when facing two God cards, gave up the Seer and chose the other, for example, the extremely important Witch card. Initially, the situation was uncertain and on the first day, they did not want to be a target. Hence, the player hid themselves and voted out No. 10 who seemed most Wolf-like at the time, choosing not to point out his problems as a ‘Seer’. Once tomorrow arrived, as soon as he revealed some clues, the other party would likely be able to infer the truth——No. 10 was a Wolf, and he was a member of the third party. The testimony of the Witch card, coupled with their complete thought process and logic, would make their words easily believable.

Unable to make clear conjectures regarding the current situation, Shen Mu sighed. Should he make the Witch seem like a Wolf? Or fight back and say that the Witch was a member of the third party?

If the Robber had really buried the Seer and became the Witch, then even if his sister potentially managed to hold out and convince the other Wolf not to kill him, he would still end up being poisoned by the Witch and would not live to see the next sunrise.

For his sister, it wasn’t that Shen Mu didn’t believe in her, but… if No. 10 had not been voted out during the day, it would still be reasonable not to kill him——after all, if he was killed, No. 10 would be suspected. However, now that No. 10 had been eliminated, his sister had no reason to disagree with killing him━and simply insisting that he shouldn’t be killed, or just finding a random reason to say so, may cause her to fall under suspicion. In that case, the last Wolf might be unable to see any hope for survival and directly drag the third party down with them. For this reason, his sister probably wouldn’t stop him from being killed tonight. After all, the Witch was still alive.

But if the Witch had really buried the Seer, then even if this round was not a dead end, its difficulty would still be Hell level…

… Unless!!

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Translator’s Corner:Kitty: It’s a cliffhanger! But this chapter wasn’t cut, I swear! I’m just a poor innocent editor … blame the author ah!

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