Ye He couldn't help but thank Windsor for his loud voice, which saved him from having to try his best to eavesdrop.
Realizing the glances from passers-by because of Windsor's words, the mayor frowned, with a hint of sullenness in his expression: "What do you mean?"
The man next to the mayor was silent. His ordinary appearance was unimpressive. Everyone in Windsor was paying attention to the mayor. Only Andersel's thoughtful eyes fell on the man.
The other two players pretended to hold Windsor back, but did not open their mouths to reprimand each other. The cameraman stood there dumbly, looking at this scene in confusion.
Seeing the mayor's appearance, Windsor became even more angry. She said coldly: "Do you know what I mean? Is the death of my companion related to you?!"
What, someone died again? !
Ye He was shocked, he had never heard of this news. He subconsciously looked at Bob and found that Bob also looked confused.
Ye He said to the system uncertainly: "Is this the fourth... fourth person to die in this town this month?"
System: [No wonder there are so few people in this town.]
Although he couldn't quite hear the mayor's words clearly, seeing that Windsor was being held back by his companions from rushing forward, Ye He guessed that the mayor was trying to defend himself.
And just as Ye He thought, the mayor was indeed quibbling at this time. Even after hearing Windsor's accusation, he looked calm: "I know it's hard for you to accept the departure of your companions, but this matter has nothing to do with me. The evidence is all there, and I am also trying my best to help you find the murderer." The murderer of his companions.”
"Besides, you and I met by chance. You came here to shoot a promotional video for the town. It's not too late for me to thank you, so what reason do I have to harm your companions?"
He spoke so grandly that Lillian, who was standing next to Windsor, couldn't help but ask: "Then why don't you let us search the town?"
Lilian, who had always been at odds with Windsor, now sided with Windsor, but her purpose was different from Windsor's. Having been in the dungeon for a long time, she was naturally not doing it for the illusory companionship, but for herself.
The dead companion was Jim, one of the three male players. Thinking of his death, Lillian felt her scalp numb.
Although Windsor's tone sounded good, the mayor still felt the feeling of being questioned and couldn't help but sneered: "If you rashly search the town, it will cause panic among the residents. As the mayor, of course I have to take the overall situation into consideration." Zhong, it is impossible for you to destroy the originally stable order of the town. Even if you are people from above, you still have to be reasonable, right?"
"What's more, I did everything I could, and I have a clear conscience."
He didn't seem to want to talk to Lilian and the others. He winked at the man next to him and tried to get around. Unexpectedly, Anderse, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stretched out his hand to stop him.
Andersel blocked the way of the mayor. No matter how reluctant the mayor was, he had to stop and looked at Andersel angrily: "You..."
Unexpectedly, Andersel did not directly accuse him as the mayor thought. The other party's eyes fell on the middle-aged man next to the mayor: "Mayor, where are you two going? This guy next to you looks like I haven’t seen it before, are you also an outsider?”
Because of the previous argument, the mayor's tone was not good: "This is a resident of the town. He usually lives in seclusion. Now he comes out with me to do some things."
Andersel's eyes fell on the bag the other man was carrying, and the man was being stared at all the time. Although his expression didn't seem to change, there was still a bit of nervousness flashing in his eyes. The bag he had been carrying suddenly moved. Although the middle-aged man quickly turned his body and tried to block the bag with his body, Andersel still saw it clearly.
The mayor's peripheral vision was always on the man. At this time, he also noticed the abnormality of the other man, and his tone became a little more anxious: "No more, we are still busy, you can do it yourself."
After he finished speaking, Andersel also stepped aside to make way.
The mayor glanced at Andersel in confusion. Apparently, even he didn't expect that the other party would be so cheerful. But as soon as he thought about it, he realized that Andersel was obviously a smart man and didn't want to offend him.
And Ye He noticed that this time the mayor and the man did not go to the next house as planned, but left here first, as if they were afraid of being discovered by Andersel.
But what made Ye He even more curious was the death of Andersel's companion. After all, the long-haired lady's weird look when she talked about committing suicide really made him feel particularly curious.
Andersel's eyes suddenly crossed the shoulders of his companions and met Ye He's eyes.
Ye He realized that he had been discovered by Andersel, and quickly showed an apologetic smile to him, and withdrew his head from watching the fun.
Seeing the young man shrinking back like a frightened rabbit, Andersel also withdrew his gaze.
Windsor and Lillian were already surrounding him. Windsor was glaring at the mayor's leaving figure with an angry look on his face: "He must know something..."
Andersel saw Windsor with red eyes and said softly: "There are many people here, let's talk about it when we go back."
The other party's gentle tone greatly comforted Windsor, who was about to collapse at this time. She nodded while crying, and was supported by Lilian as she walked forward.
Compared with the lively atmosphere before, this time the atmosphere in the team was very depressed. The miserable death of their companions appeared in front of their eyes, seeming to cast a miserable shadow over them.
The cameraman followed them for a few steps before he couldn't stand the atmosphere. Seeing that there was no need for camera work at this time, he excused himself to wander around and turned around to leave. The other players naturally wanted him to leave the team, and in the end the remaining The next few players returned to their temporary house.
Because there are very few outsiders in the town, there are no hotels or the like, so they can only temporarily stay in one house. For safety reasons, two people live in one room.
Andersel lived with the cameraman, while the remaining two male players lived in one room. However, yesterday morning, it was already bright. Aaron, who lived with Jim, had already washed up and was about to go downstairs. He found that Jim was still lying on the bed with his back to him, seemingly sleeping.
Aaron called Jim's name a few times, and after finding no response from the other party, he subconsciously walked to the bed. Under the sun, he could faintly see a red thread on the back of Jim's neck exposed from the quilt, but there was no trace of it. He didn't pay attention, but reached out and pushed Jim's back: "Man, get up and have breakfast!"
However, the next second, something unexpected happened - Jim turned over and lay flat on the bed, revealing the neatly intertwined "red lines" on his body.
Then his body suddenly split open neatly along the red line, and blood instantly flowed out from the incision. The blood spattered everywhere, soaking the sheets and walls.
When Andersel and the others sensed something was wrong and rushed forward, they saw Jim who was neatly cut into pieces like a fruit, and Aaron who was standing beside the bed dully with blood on his face. .
The air was filled with the disgusting smell of blood, as thick as entering a slaughterhouse.
Lillian took one look and turned her head with a chill down her spine, while Windsor was so frightened that she burst into tears. Andersel walked forward with a calm face, looking at the flat human tissue at Jim's fracture, a hint of coldness flashed in his amber eyes.
What Aaron saw on Jim at that time was not a red line at all, but a knife edge.
After Aaron reacted, he couldn't help but vomited. It took him a long time to come back to his senses: "How could... Who killed him?!"
He still remembered that Jim greeted him normally before going to bed at night, and the two of them discussed who had a better figure, Windsor or Lillian...
What's more, Aaron was not a heavy sleeper and could wake up at the slightest noise, but he didn't hear any movement that night and slept until dawn.
Could it be that while he was washing up in the morning, someone took the opportunity to sneak in and kill Jim? but... ... .
Aaron's mind was confused.
Andersel glanced at the knife edge: "It can't be done by humans."
The incision seemed to have been precisely measured, and every piece of Jim's body was cut evenly.
Because the NPC uncle was still eating downstairs, he could speak directly.
As soon as his words came out, the expressions of everyone present changed. They all understood the subtext of Andersel.
If he wasn't killed by a murderer, then there is only one possibility left - Jim was killed by a ghost.
Everyone's expressions suddenly became gloomy, and Aaron's face turned pale. After all, Jim's bed was only a few centimeters away from him at that time. Rounding off, he also missed the ghost who killed Jim.
Lillian quickly regained her composure and asked, "Why did you choose Jim? Did we accidentally trigger something?"
Precisely because they were afraid of accidentally touching the conditions of death, they were very cautious even when they went out these days. Unexpectedly, they still touched something unknowingly.
But even if they knew there was a ghost in this town, they couldn't leave. After all, their mission had not been completed yet.
Not long after, the owner and his wife of this house also came up to check on the situation because Anderse and his party had not come back down since they went up.
Facing the bloody scene on the bed, the woman paused and couldn't help screaming. She rolled her eyes and fainted. Her husband barely supported her, his legs were trembling while he called the mayor. .
Because there are no police in the town, they habitually call the mayor when a case occurs.
The mayor came very quickly at that time. After seeing Jim's body, his face instantly turned pale, and he subconsciously took a few steps back, his shoulders shaking violently.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, he came back to his senses from the bloody scene of the corpse in front of him, and began to question the owner of the house and Andersel, and finally concluded that Jim's death was a vicious homicide.
Thinking of this, Windsor said angrily: "At that time, he looked so enthusiastic about helping us catch the murderer. Thinking about it now, it's really disgusting!"
If they hadn't asked the mayor to take Jim's body away at that time, but wanted to bury it themselves, they might have let the mayor get away with it.
At that time, the mayor saw that he could not persuade them to take away the body, so he turned around and wanted to leave. Unexpectedly, Andersel found a line of small words written in blood on one of Jim's bodies: Quinn.
And Quinn is the name of the mayor.
As a player, Jim is not related to the mayor, so it is naturally impossible for Jim to have the mayor's name tattooed on his body for no reason.
The eyes of several people instantly fell on the mayor who was about to leave. Aaron couldn't contain his emotions and was the first to shout in surprise: "This... why is there a name on it?!"
Hearing Aaron's words, the mayor suddenly showed a nervous look: "How is that possible?!"
As he spoke, he walked over, but when he was about to reach the bed, the word "Quinn" originally written on Jim's body disappeared, and the mayor squinted his eyes to hold back his nausea, so naturally it was impossible to see. What's the name
The mayor's face was obviously relaxed for a moment, and he asked doubtfully where the words were. Except for the mayor, everyone else has clearly seen that name.
At this time, everyone present already understood that Jim's death was inseparable from the mayor in front of him. They proposed to the mayor that they wanted to search the town and find clues about the murderer, but he was rejected by the mayor.
The mayor didn't ask for an answer, and he was impatient. He asked one last time if he wanted to help dispose of Jim's body. After getting a negative answer, he turned around and left. He seemed not to notice the gaze cast on him.
After the mayor left, the owner of the house did not dare to stay longer. He helped his wife who had fainted and walked out first. And it wasn't until they were the only ones left in the room that Aaron asked, "Mayor, is he... a ghost?"
As soon as his words came out, Windsor and Lillian couldn't help but change their expressions. After all, they had been dealing with the mayor these days. If the other party was really a ghost, they would have almost missed the danger every time.
Andersel shook his head, with a reassuring smile on his handsome face: "He is not a ghost. When he saw Jim's body, his expression also showed fear, and he did not look like he knew about it from the beginning. ."
After hearing Andersel's words, the three of them felt relieved. At that time, their attention was all on Jim's body. Fortunately, Andersel had been watching the mayor's reaction.
Lilian looked at Andersel: "Then why does he have the name of the mayor on him?"
Andersel said calmly: "I have a guess."
"It should be that the mayor used some method to make Jim die for him."
"What?!" The three of them looked at each other, but they had to admit that Andersel's idea was very reasonable - it was precisely because Jim replaced the mayor that the mayor's name was on his skin.
But this thought made them hate the mayor even more for his insidiousness and treating them as scapegoats.
What frightens them the most is that this may be just the beginning. After all, maybe the mayor doesn't just need a scapegoat.
Windsor and Jim are people from the same place, and neither of them has experienced several copies, so they have a lot in common. Now that Jim is dead, Windsor's sadness comes not only from the fear that she will end up in the same fate, but also from the sadness of losing half of her friends.
Jim's death had become a shadow over her head, so when she saw the mayor again, Windsor, who had the worst psychological quality, could no longer control her emotions and started quarreling with the mayor.
Lilian sighed: "It's all because we were all focusing on investigating Robert and didn't notice anything unusual about the mayor."
Aaron comforted: "After all, our mission this time is related to Robert."
That's right, the mission of several people in this copy is to find incriminating evidence about Robert, and shooting a promotional video for the town is just their excuse.
But as for what case Robert committed, the mission did not say, so they had to rely on their own investigation.
On the first day they arrived in the town, they received a call that Robert was killing people. At that time, several people thought that their mission would be completed so quickly, and they suppressed their joy and persuaded the mayor to take them home. What disappointed a few people was that Robert was the only one in the villa when they arrived, and apart from being a little messy, the living room did not look like a murder scene.
Lillian and the others found another excuse to walk around the villa, but there was no other person in the house except Robert. And the calls they received were anonymous, so they had no way of finding out who made the call, so they had to treat it as a prank.
They also encounter obstacles while investigating the town. The people in the town had already been greeted, but there was no intention of answering their questions. Only Andersel's inexplicable attraction to women made some girls reveal some information, saying that Robert had a few friends who had been playing together, but recently the press team came, and Robert was not allowed to go out by his father.
It was obvious that the mayor was afraid of something. It was precisely because the previous focus of the investigation was on Robert, who was hidden by the mayor, that the group ignored the small tricks the mayor might have done.
The more Windsor thought about it, the angrier she became: "You said there is no reason to harm us. It must be because he thinks we are outsiders who are easy to bully, so he treats us as scapegoats!"
If it weren't for the fear of exposing her true mission, Windsor would have opened her mouth to refute the mayor's conclusive words just now.
Aaron: “But we don’t know what method the mayor used.”
As soon as his words came out, Windsor suddenly felt a little downcast. This is what scares them. They don't know why the mayor can use them as scapegoats, and why ghosts can come out and kill people.
"Andersel, what are you thinking about?" Lilian looked at Andersel, who seemed to be deep in thought, and realized that the other person had been silent for a while.
Andersel came back to his senses and smiled: "The middle-aged man next to the mayor was a little strange. The bag he was carrying moved. The mayor also saw it and immediately wanted to leave here in a hurry."
"Yes, those two people just came out of the same store. Let's find time to ask the store owner some time in the afternoon." Aaron suggested first.
Naturally, the other people had no objections.
Bob eavesdropped for a while and then had to withdraw his head because his neck was too short and too tired. Therefore, he did not feel the embarrassment of being caught like Ye He did. Instead, he pestered the other party to ask what happened.
Ye He sighed: "Another person died in the small town."
Bob's expression suddenly changed: "What? Is there a murderer in our town? How many times this month is this?"
Ye He found that Bob was very interested in things other than studying. Seeing the trembling appearance of the little fat man, although he didn't know how Andersel's companions died, he still comforted him: "Didn't the previous ones commit suicide?"
Unexpectedly, Bob shook his head and glanced around with a sly look. After making sure that no one was around, he said: "I didn't have time to say it just now. I heard from my buddy that my goddess's uncle was very miserable when she died..." "
Even things about the goddess's family had to be heard from other people's mouths. Ye He felt that the fire of love between Bob and the goddess had quietly extinguished.
But seeing the little fat man's excited look, Ye He swallowed it hard.
Bob had no idea what Ye He was thinking at this time, so he lowered his voice and pretended to be mysterious: "It was fine at night. When his family went to call him in the morning, they found that he only had a complete human skin left. In bed, the rest of the fatty liver appeared in the trash can..."
As he spoke, he shuddered. He originally wanted to scare Ye He, but unexpectedly, he scared himself first. Seeing that Ye He was not panicking at all, he instantly looked at him with admiration.
system:[... ...]
One look at Bob's eyes showed that he obviously hadn't experienced what Ye He looked like when he saw a ghost.
Hearing Bob's words, Ye He also felt a little strange. After all, according to the other party's description, that person's death did not look like suicide at all.
Bob rubbed his arms: "I doubt there is a murderer in this town. You should close the door when you sleep."
Ye He took a look at his desk and decided to put it behind the door before going to bed at night.
Bob's fear went away as quickly as it came, and after a while he happily ran out to give the goddess a birthday gift.
Ye He touched the black cat and looked at Bob's leaving back. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "He was still too young at this time. He didn't know that God had quietly closed a window for him at this time."
System: [... ...Which window?]
Ye He's eyes were dark: "You can't fall in love with a goddess."
System: [Actually, your fate has been priced secretly. Do you want to know?]
This was the first time that it took the initiative to talk about its destiny in front of Ye He, and its steady mechanical voice was a bit coaxing.
This was considered a bad taste of the system before. Sometimes it would tempt the host to go to colleagues to calculate their own future and destiny in advance through probabilities and data. Almost no host can escape the temptation of predicting the future, but no host is willing to follow the original destiny.
As soon as it said the words, it felt a little regretful, fearing that Ye He would follow the same path as some previous hosts.
Ye He asked doubtfully: "Didn't my life have a price clearly marked long ago, one hundred a minute?"
For some reason, after hearing Ye He's words, the system felt relieved, but still pretended not to care and said: [... ....Forget it.]
Ye He's expression was a little more hopeful: "Is there still room for the price to fluctuate downward?"
System: [The price going up and down is called fluctuation, and the price going down is called bargaining. Don’t take the opportunity to confuse the concepts.]
It finally understood why it regretted it just now. It must have been because it had realized in advance that Ye He would definitely pick up the plane and bargain.
Ye He's purpose was mercilessly exposed by the system, and he was suddenly disappointed.
In the afternoon, Ye He saw Andersel and his group walking in, and his body suddenly stiffened.
Whether it was because of the other person's appearance or because he had saved himself, Ye He had a deep impression on Andersel.
Andersel greeted him with a smile: "We meet again."
His eyes fell on the black cat in Ye He's arms. The black cat seemed to have noticed Andersel's gaze. It put its front paws on the table and leaned forward, as if it wanted to catch prey and was ready to attack. Little leopard. However, it soon realized that one of its paws was wrapped, and when Ye He glanced over from the corner of his eye, he immediately put away his paws and returned to his weak appearance.
Andersel had a clear view of the black cat's movements, and there was some consideration in his eyes.
Ye He didn't expect that the other party would still remember him, so he was flattered and greeted him back.
The system whispered devilishly in his ear: [After all, you were caught just this morning for peeping.]
Ye He: "......"
Fortunately, Andersel did not mention his peeping, but asked warmly: "The mayor has been here before, right?"
Although he was asking, Ye He inexplicably heard a certain tone.
Ye He understood that the other party should have seen the mayor leaving him at that time, so he knew that denying it was useless, so he nodded simply.
Andersel was not surprised by Ye He's answer, but Aaron beside him had already asked anxiously: "What did the two of them say? Tell us quickly!"
Before he finished speaking, he noticed Andersel's gaze looking over, and he suddenly realized that his tone was a bit harsh.
Andersel looked at Ye He with an apologetic look: "Sorry, his tone was a little anxious, because this matter is indeed very important to us."
Because Andersel saved him, Ye He said honestly: "They didn't say anything. They just came in and walked around, then said they were going to the next house and left."
He paused and added his guess: "I think they are looking for something."
Windsor looked disappointed: "That's it? They didn't say anything?"
Ye He nodded: "The mayor broke in suddenly, so I was caught off guard and didn't ask anything."
Hearing Ye He's words, Andersel paused and suddenly asked: "Then did they take anything out of the bag?"
Ye He: "By the way, there is something like a compass, which was put into the bag by the middle-aged man next to the mayor."
Hearing Ye He's words, Lilian and the three people standing behind Andersel suddenly showed expressions of surprise.
Ye He's words confirmed Andersel's guess. It was obvious that there was something wrong with the middle-aged man. Maybe he was the helper hired by the mayor.
As long as they catch the middle-aged man, they may be able to get rid of the situation of being treated as a scapegoat by the village chief.
Ye He looked at the people who were inexplicably excited and couldn't help but wonder if what he just said was "come on".
Andersel thanked Ye He, making Ye He wave his hand in embarrassment: "No..."
His words were suddenly broken by cries. Hearing this familiar business, Ye He said sadly in his heart: [Sure enough...]
Hearing the painful howling and heartbreaking cry, the group turned around and saw a little fat man crying and struggling to cross the threshold and heading straight to Yehe: "Brother Revel, I... I The goddess..."
He obviously couldn't talk anymore and hiccupped several times.
Ye He said calmly: "I'm with your brother."
Ye He was not surprised about Bob's love fate. After all, the moment he heard "buddy" from his mouth, he knew that the other person's love was destined to be bumpy.
"Absolutely, they actually carried me on their backs and went to the park together." The little fat man choked and stopped crying: "But brother Revel, how do you know? Do you also have this experience?"
Ye He: "... Of course not."
System: [Yes, you don’t even have love.]
Seeing that the little fat man's eyes were still full of sympathy when he looked at him, Ye He justified himself: "I just understand love."
When Windsor and Lilian heard what he said, they immediately cast surprised glances, apparently mistaking Ye He for a well-hidden scumbag.
Windsor covered her mouth and whispered: "I really didn't see it..."
Lilian also glanced at Ye He several times: "I hate scumbags the most!"
Although it was unclear what Windsor and Lilian were whispering, this did not prevent Ye He from feeling the strange gaze cast on him, which made Ye He a little confused.
Bob was so lost in his grief that he did not notice anyone else present.
He put the hairpin he had been holding on the table: "She didn't accept my gift, and I don't want to see this hairpin again. Brother Revel, I'll give it to you."
He had made up his mind to bid farewell to this love. After crying tonight, he still smiled and blessed the goddess and his buddies. And he did not want to see this hairpin that witnessed the failure of his love again.
It was an exquisite hairpin with a cute little pillow on it. Bob spent all his pocket money on it, but in the end he couldn't put it on his beloved goddess' head. Because the price was very high for Bob, it would be a pity to throw it away, so he decided to give it to Ye He.
Of course, it was impossible for Ye He to want the hairpin. He grabbed the hairpin on the table and wanted to return it to Bob: "I don't..."
He doesn't need to issue a card.
As soon as Ye He's fingertips touched the hairpin, he heard the system's voice coming from his ears: [Ding—Congratulations to the host for getting the bound item—]
[This prop is successfully bound to you.]
What? This little hairpin is actually a prop? !
Although he didn't know what the prop was, when he heard that it was bound to him, Ye He changed the topic: "I didn't know you knew me so well!"
The author has something to say: [If Ye He really went to fortune telling]
At this time of fate, Ye He: It’s really accurate
When destiny be, Ye He: Sure enough, we shouldn’t be feudal and superstitious
Note: The original words of a conversation between the system and Ye He are: "She was too young at that time, and she didn't know that all the gifts given by fate had already been marked in secret." This is from the biography "Dismemberment" written by the Austrian writer Zweig. Head Queen".