Chapter 6

"Stop trying to sow discord," Officer Li glared at Qiao Jiajin, saying very sternly, "You are a loan shark, and I am a police officer. Do you think people will believe you?"

Qi Xia looked at the noisy crowd and knew that Officer Li was probably not lying; he was indeed a detective.

But his approach was wrong.

Perhaps due to his professional nature, or perhaps driven by a sense of justice, he always wanted to organize the crowd in an orderly manner.

The halftime break was already halfway over, and the crowd gradually fell silent.

During this time, Qi Xia had repeated "My name is Li Ming" countless times in his mind, until he himself became somewhat annoyed.

After all, a corpse with a shattered skull lay beside him, making it impossible to calm down.

Blood dripped from the table to the ground, and the crowd had been in the same room with the corpse for almost an hour. A strange odor began to waft through the air.

Qi Xia glanced at the corpse beside him; his pants were already filthy.

After death, the body's organs lose the constraint of muscle strength, causing incontinence.

Before the stench of the corpse arrived, a foul smell had already permeated the air.

Qi Xia and another girl sat on either side of the corpse. The girl seemed very dissatisfied with the smell and kept covering her nose and mouth.

Ten minutes later, the Goat Head finally spoke: "The twenty-minute halftime break is over, and the game will resume."

The young man named Han Yimo calmed himself, took a deep breath, and said, "My name is Han Yimo, and I am a web novelist."

"Before I came here, I was writing the grand finale of a novel in a rented house. Since the novel features over a hundred characters, almost all of them appear in the finale, so I was fully focused on writing and didn't hear any noise outside."

"Even... I didn't know when the earthquake happened or when I lost consciousness..."

Han Yimo's story was different from everyone else's. From what he said, he was completely "independent" and his story ended abruptly after a few sentences.

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The muscular man was slightly taken aback, "You just say 'I don't know' and that's it?"

"Since I can't lie, I don't need to fabricate an answer to please everyone," Han Yimo's voice, though not loud, was strangely convincing.

"Alright... next one then." Officer Li's face still carried a hint of suspicion as he said, "It's the lady's turn."

"Hey, cop," Qiao Jiajin was somewhat dissatisfied with Officer Li's attitude, "We are all 'participants.' Don't act like you're the leader."

"Someone has to organize everyone, right?" Officer Li argued, "I've said it before, only one of us is the enemy, and the remaining eight must unite."

"But it's not your place to command us," Qiao Jiajin completely ignored Officer Li's words, "Outside, I might be afraid of you, but in this situation, no one knows if you're the 'liar.'"

"Stop arguing," the cold woman interrupted them.

This cold woman had been accusing the Goat Head of imprisoning them for twenty-four hours from the beginning. She appeared very calm and logical.

Seeing them calm down, she continued, "In this so-called 'game,' no matter who wins in the end, the rest might be considered 'indirect murderers.' After all, we collectively voted for the goat to kill someone. This is what you should be considering."

Hearing this, Qi Xia's expression changed slightly.

If he really managed to survive and leave this room, he would indeed have "killed" the other eight people.

But what could he do?

The card in front of him was a genuine "liar" card. Who would willingly give up their life to let others live?

"My name is Zhang Chenze, and I am a lawyer," the cold woman said with her arms crossed and a blank expression, "I'm sorry to meet everyone in such a bizarre place; otherwise, I would have handed out my business card."

The crowd couldn't understand Zhang Chenze's humor, but she didn't seem to care.

"Before I came here, I was organizing trial documents. My client was defrauded of two million yuan, a large sum with serious implications."

When she mentioned "two million," the crowd's expressions remained unchanged, but Qiao Jiajin was clearly shocked and asked, "Two million?"

"Yes, two million. Lawyers are supposed to be the most impartial and selfless, but we also have personal feelings. That man borrowed high-interest loans to support his family, which is very worrying. However, illegal lending is a separate case and not related to me."

"When the earthquake happened, I was driving to meet my client on Qingyang Avenue, just past Du Fu's Thatched Cottage, near Wuhou Temple. I remember... I wasn't driving fast, about forty miles per hour, when I suddenly saw the ground crack ahead."

"I immediately braked and stopped steadily in front of the crack, but the car behind me couldn't avoid it in time, causing a chain collision."

"I only heard a few loud bangs, and my car was pushed into the crack. I then lost consciousness and ended up here."

Another story ended, and only three people had yet to speak.

"Wuhou Temple..." Doctor Zhao thought for a moment and said, "Is it Wuhou Temple in Chengdu?"

"Yes, I work in Chengdu."

It seemed that the earthquake affected the entire country.

Based on these unfamiliar stories, it was really too difficult to guess who was lying.

"It's my turn," Officer Li looked at the crowd, "I already mentioned my name earlier. I am Li Shangwu, a detective from Inner Mongolia."

"Before I came here, I was staking out a fraudster. According to reliable information, we had already pinpointed the suspect's exact location."

"This suspect defrauded a large sum, two million yuan, the largest fraud case our city has seen this year."

"My colleague and I were monitoring from the car, waiting for the fraudster to appear."

"But the suspect was smarter than we thought. He seemed to sense some danger and didn't show up for three days."

"For three days, we ate, drank, and slept in the car, and our spirits were about to break."

"But do you know what's even harder for a grown man than not having food or drink?"

"It's not having cigarettes."

"We didn't have a single cigarette left. According to the rules, we couldn't leave our post, but the lack of cigarettes was unbearable."

"So I sent my colleague to buy cigarettes while I kept a close eye on the suspect's residence."

"But what I didn't expect was that shortly after my colleague left, the ground began to shake violently. I wanted to get out of the car to see what was happening, but someone suddenly strangled me from behind with a thin wire."

"Although we are skilled in close combat, the thin wire from the back seat was very difficult to handle. I couldn't reach the person behind me or remove the wire from my neck."

At this point, the crowd looked at Officer Li and noticed a red mark on his neck.

"So I immediately reclined the seat to regain my breath, but I couldn't turn around because my legs were stuck under the steering wheel."

"The person behind me took advantage of my lying down and hit me on the head with something, and I lost consciousness."

After hearing Officer Li's story, the crowd began to doubt.

He described a completely different situation. Before him, all the participants had been injured and unconscious due to accidents.

Only he had been attacked and brought here.

If they had to choose the most suspicious person, wouldn't it be him?