Shen Mu looked at his still dazzling red hair swaying in the cold wind, and sighed in his heart: "That's right, it's me."
Appearing in front of Shen Mu was the red-haired lion-headed Zhao Xu whom Shen Mu met in the first game. Looking at his swaying hair, Shen Mu felt emotional: so long has passed.
Zhao Xu: "You are the preview of that game..."
Shen Mu: "I am the second cousin of your third cousin's family!"
Zhao Xu: "???"
"By the way, what do you call brother?" Shen Mu asked.
"Aren't you the second cousin of my third cousin's family?!"
"I remembered, it's Brother Zhao." The two said almost in unison.
Zhao Xu: "..."
The tense atmosphere brought by Zhao Xu was temporarily diluted. Shen Mu glanced at the "Ⅶ" on Zhao Xu's chest, and suddenly asked, "What's going on in front?"
Zhao Xu's pupils shrank suddenly, his expression became anxious again, and there was a trace of vigilance in his eyes: "Brother, did you come down from the mountain?"
Shen Mu nodded.
Seeing Shen Mu nodding, Zhao Xu looked at Shen Mu for a while again, as if judging whether what he said was credible. After a few seconds, the alertness in Zhao Xu's eyes dissipated and turned serious: "There is a dead person ahead."
Shen Mu's eyes flashed: "Is it right in front? Let's go."
The two walked down the direction Zhao Xu came from. Zhao Xu told Shen Mu that he also woke up in a wooden house, got up and went out nearly half an hour ago, and planned to go down the mountain to have a look. Others walked to a place and suddenly smelled something wrong in the air, so they searched the surrounding area, and saw it in a snow pit full of fallen leaves...
A stiff corpse.
Walking side by side with Zhao Xu, Shen Mu reckoned that he and his walking speed should be about the same. It seems that Zhao Xu's wooden house is closer to the mountain than his own. I didn't meet other wooden houses on the way here. If Zhao Xu didn't lie, then The player's wooden houses should not be distributed in a straight line, and the wooden houses may be randomly distributed on the mountain.
"It's No. 6." Zhao Xu said in a low voice, "I panicked for a moment. I always felt that the area was not safe. The murderer was probably nearby, so I subconsciously walked up the mountain and ran into you after walking for about 10 minutes. , By the way, what's your brother's name?"
"An Mu." As Shen Mu said, he stopped and scratched the letter A on the largest moment tree nearby, and nodded to Zhao Xu.
"High! As expected of Brother An." After understanding Shen Mu's intentions, Zhao Xu gave a thumbs up, "To be honest, I was quite relieved to meet you. In the first round, your prophet danced really well." , I thought at the time that you would survive! Sure enough, I met you again!"
Shen Mu curled his lips, in fact, you and I probably played the same round in the second round.
But Shen Mu didn't say this, but suddenly asked Zhao Xu: "Brother Zhao, you trust me so much, aren't you afraid that I'm the one who killed No. 6?"
"I'm afraid." Zhao Xu said honestly.
Shen Mu: "..."
"But I'm not very scared." Zhao Xu scratched his hair and smiled shyly, "You said you just came down from the mountain, I don't think you're lying, although you are very good at deceiving people, but You don't feel like someone who can kill, and you don't need to turn back early in the morning if you are a murderer, a real murderer never looks back!"
Seeing that Shen Mu didn't speak, Zhao Xu suddenly reacted: "You don't doubt that I'm a murderer calling for a thief, do you? Oh my god! It's really not me. If I were a murderer, I wouldn't be here today! I'll just go to the mountain , why add salty fish to yourself... Bah, suspicion!"
"No," Shen Mu shook his head with a smile, and said concisely. "I don't think it's like you either."
Although Shen Mu didn't explain too much, there was a kind of convincing force in his demeanor. Zhao Xu heaved a sigh of relief, and Shen Mu continued: "I was just wondering why you kept using the word 'murderer' instead of 'wolf'? ?Although the mode has become very strange, our essence is a werewolf killing game. When someone dies at night, the first reaction is that it should be killed by wolves, right? Are there heavy man-made traces on the corpse?" Shen Mu paused, " And now I have another question, you just said 'I won't come here today', which means, has the person been dead for a long time?"
"People are already frozen hard." Zhao Xu said seriously, "Even in this icy and snowy environment, it's not easy to completely freeze a person. Number 6... has been dead for a long time."
"As for why I mentioned the murderer," Zhao Xu smiled wryly. "That's a good question. You'll understand when you see the corpse."
Shen Mu nodded and stopped talking, but asked Zhao Xu another question: "Cousin, if I'm not mistaken, you came here with the seventh pick, right?"
"... That's right," Zhao Xu choked on Shen Mu's natural address, and couldn't help but look at Shen Mu's hair, "I don't mind having a second cousin from my third cousin's family, but my cousin All bald."
"..." Shen Mu changed his words nonchalantly, "After confirming from Brother Zhao, I can be sure. Just as I thought, the number of picks represents the number of players."
Zhao Xu doesn't seem to be the murderer of No. 6, and he doesn't seem to know that only players killed by wolves at night will appear on the death notice the next day. From this point of view, Zhao Xu's identity should be a good person . Even for Piper, the good guys are still "better" than Wolves because they don't have the need to swipe their paws at you in the dark.
Of course, this is if not counting personal tasks.
Now there is another question, what time to what time is the "time of night" in the rules for the Wolves
From sunset to sunrise? From 9:00pm to 6:00am? 12:00pm to 6:00am? Just like the rule for Piper is to count a day from 6:00 this morning to 6:00 tomorrow morning. When it comes to the "night" in the eyes of the Wolves, the action must be more careful.
…
After walking down the mountain for about ten minutes, Zhao Xu took Shen Mu to the right and turned a little bit to the right. Shen Mu saw... a person lying there.
This is a natural depression more than one meter deep, which is not considered a standard pit. Generally, the edge of a pit is relatively steep, while its edge is relatively gentle. If it is a sunny day, it is probably a very uneven mountain road that is very difficult to walk. Or a pit.
Now the slope pit is full of snow and fallen leaves, and a person is lying straight in the pit.
Straightforward is a bit too much... This is a world of ice and snow. It is impossible for a living person to die in this state. Someone put him away after his death.
into this. It is uncertain whether it was the murderer or someone else came after the murderer. Shen Mu sighed, jumped down, inspected the corpse closely, and finally understood why Zhao Xu insisted that the "murderer" did it.
No. 6 is a young man wearing black-rimmed glasses. He is wearing the same clothes as Shen Mu and Zhao Xu, and the logo on his chest is capitalized "Ⅵ". At this time, No. 6's body has been frozen hard. It's really not something that can be achieved in a short while. His right leg seemed to have been bitten by something, and a large piece of his trousers had been torn. Shen Mu squatted down, and No. 6's wound had been artificially bandaged. On the other hand, No. 6's eyes are wide open, the eyeballs are a little protruding, and there are faint red bloodshot eyes in the eyes, and what is frozen in the eyes is... despair and disbelief.
Incredible? …Shen Mu reached out and took off the eyes of No. 6. Seeing the last frozen expression in his eyes, Shen Mu slowly stretched out his hand and closed the eyes of No. 6 who could not rest in peace.
Zhao Xu also jumped down. The snow in the snow mountain forest was not thick, but a thin layer, which was basically half covered and half exposed on the ground. Some light snow fell at night for unknown reasons. Although some of them fell on the ground and melted, they completely covered up the traces of the previous night. Except for the traces left by Zhao Xu and Shen Mu, there were no other traces for the time being.
"What's his number?"
"Number 6... Ah, let's draw the wolf card. He's number 7, I'm number 8, and I don't know what's behind," Zhao Xu replied.
Shen Mu came to open the zipper of the No. 6 cotton coat. Sure enough, No. 6's wound was bandaged with his own cotton inner shirt. Under the player's coat, there was a cotton warm and thick inner coat. No. 6 seemed to use his teeth to bind the inner coat He bit it, and then tore off a long strip to bandage the wound on his leg.
Shen Mu untied the cloth strips that bandaged No. 6's wound, and his expression became more serious: There were clear tooth marks on the large wound on No. 6's leg—it was definitely not something humans could bite out.
Zhao Xu also saw the wound clearly, and his pupils also shrank: "Was it bitten by a wolf?"
"It was bitten by a wolf."
"The clothes on other places on No. 6 are relatively tidy, and there are no bloodstains. This is the only place where the trauma should be, and there is not much blood in the pit," Shen Mu said: "No. 6 is probably not bitten by a wolf here. , I don’t know if I moved here after treating the wound, or was transported here after death. This wound is not particularly deep, and I don’t know the amount of bleeding now, but if No. 6 is bandaged in time, this wound is not fatal, let alone …”
Shen Mu didn't say it directly, the eyes of the two fell on No. 6's neck and tongue at the same time - No. 6's tongue was sticking out, and there were obvious pinch marks on the neck.
Number 6 should have been strangled to death.
This consensus is not difficult to reach, but when this consensus is reached, new questions arise.
Why didn't the wolf kill No. 6? There is only one wound, and No. 6 can still have time to bandage the wound well, and even leave the place
Why did number 6 die of strangulation? Why is No. 6's final expression so unbelievable? Did the murderer put No. 6 flat, or was it someone else
Where was No. 6 bitten by a wolf, and where was he strangled to death? Is it in the wild or in the house, does the house actually help to prevent wolves
…
Shen Mu checked the other conditions of No. 6. There were some ice marks on the pants, which were caused by incontinence. He didn't know if it was the stress reaction of seeing the wolf being frightened or strangled to death. Shen Mu and Zhao Xu found No. 6's mobile phone in his pocket. There were some dry finger-shaped water marks on the mobile phone, as if holding the mobile phone with the hand that had grasped the snow. No. 6's own hands also had dry water. There were no traces of blood left when he bandaged himself, but there were some traces of blood on the cuff of his right hand, which should have been wiped off by himself with snow. Shen Mu tried to turn on the phone, no
As expected, there was a black screen—the personal mobile phone can only be used by myself. Nothing else worth noticing.