The clock had struck eight, yet everyone was sitting at the long table, and no one got up.
Yang Song's hair was disheveled, and there were a pair of dark circles under his eyes. Without the cover of foundation on his skin, blemishes, fine lines and small scars and acne marks were exposed, making him look extremely haggard.
"It's eight o'clock..." Ding Zihui hesitated to speak.
Everyone looked out the door with aspirations, wondering if the rest of them could come back. On the contrary, Liu Xin was the least burdened among these people. He swiped his card early, sat upright, and was full of energy.
"Don't wait," he played with the watch on his left wrist, and smiled slightly, "I can't come back."
"Shut up!" Yang Song glared at him, "You are a clear wolf today, and if you run away now, you can still live on this island for three days."
Liu Xin tidied his hair and said with a smile, "Why should I leave? It's not necessarily who died today."
Ding Zihui said softly: "You don't have to argue, we all saw it last night, you killed Li Sinian."
"He jumped into the sea by himself, what can he do, blame me," Liu Xin straightened his cuffs and neckline, tilted his head and smiled, "Obviously witches have an antidote."
His attire today was very strange. In the precarious hot and humid weather, he actually wore a stiff collared shirt, and his beard was shaved carefully. He was even more glamorous than all the girls present.
Niu Xinyan and the boy still didn't say a word, Niu Xinyan sat on the chair in a daze, with a suspicious bruise hanging from the corner of her mouth, her hair was still loosely tied behind her head, and the few strands of hair on her temples were not gathered Well, it made her look very haggard.
The long table, which was originally full of people, now only sat five of them.
In the last five minutes, it was a quarter past eight. Ding Zihui was wiggling his toes in his shoes, and Yang Song was rubbing his fingers.
"Is there only... the five of us left?" There was a muffled thunder outside the window, the curtains were blown up by the wind, and the crystal chandelier was shaken by the wind, making a rattling sound. Ding Zihui felt very cold, and she wrapped her arms around her.
Liu Xin looked up and smiled strangely: "There are still people, don't worry."
There was something wrong with the circuit of the chandelier, and it flickered twice. With the lightning and thunder outside the window, it made people feel even more desperate and frightened. The whole villa is like a solitary boat sailing in the vast ocean, precarious everywhere, and the hull is precarious.
Suddenly there was a voice upstairs.
Everyone looked up and saw the couple walking down the stairs one after the other, with solemn expressions on their faces.
"Are you in the house?" Yang Song turned around and said, "Why did you come down now, we were so scared that we couldn't figure it out."
The two swiped their cards, and Du Wei lowered his head without saying a word, and silently pulled out his chair and sat down. Chen Huiqiang said something to Yang Song with a smile, and explained: "I overslept." Then she also pulled out the chair and sat down next to her boyfriend.
There are seven people left.
There is only one minute left before 8:15, even Yang Song stopped waiting for Li Fang, she sighed: "It's too late, even if I come back, I won't be able to swipe the card..."
Before she could finish her words, the heavy brass carved gate of the villa was kicked open vigorously by one person, and the salty sea breeze rushed in with the torrential rain, which wet everyone's faces.
I saw Fang Daichuan holding his ID card and dashing in with the momentum of a 100-meter sprint, followed by Li Sinian.
Yang Song didn't care to look at the faces of other people. He pushed the table away and stood up. He pointed at the machine inside and shouted, "Hurry up! There's no time! Swipe your card!"
Fang Daichuan threw himself in front of the machine, and pressed a fingerprint with a beep.
Li Sinian followed closely behind. Just as he took back his card, the clock upstairs rang "Dang-".
"Please open your eyes at dawn. There are currently 9 surviving players on the field. Please take your place." The machine read out a piece of electronically synthesized sound from the flat panel.
Li Sinian raised his eyes to observe the expressions of everyone on the long table, but he had already missed the best time. Everyone withdrew their strange expressions and managed their expressions well. Li Sinian looked away, walked to the end of the long table, and gently pulled the chair away.
"What's the matter with you?" Yang Song couldn't hold back, and asked directly, "After you jumped into the sea last night, we waited on the shore for a long time and didn't see you come out. I thought..."
Fang Daichuan and Li Sinian were drenched and covered with water plants and the like. Fang Daichuan could smell the rotten smell coming from himself even when he lowered his head. He rubbed his face and sighed, "It's a long story..."
"Players, please take your seats!" the loudspeaker yelled. Fang Daichuan didn't know what to say anyway, what happened last night was too tortuous, and he couldn't explain clearly at the moment, so he sat heavily on the chair and just shut up.
The machine read: "Du Chaosheng died last night, please speak from the left side of the deceased."
On Du Chaosheng's left is Chen Hui.
Chen Hui lowered her head and kept playing with the tablecloth. Her expression was not very good, and Fang Daichuan couldn't guess what happened to her. He hadn't seen this couple from the beginning to the end of the surprise change last night, and he didn't know what happened between them. Chen Hui has been silent.
"Speak." Ding Zihui reminded softly.
Chen Hui shook slightly. She whispered and spoke quickly: "I don't know what happened. I didn't kill Du Chaosheng."
"What do you care about Du Chaosheng? Push Liu Xin first today!" Yang Song interrupted her, "We saw with our own eyes last night that Liu Xin gave Li Sinian a shot, and it was Fang Daichuan who saved Li Sinian."
Fang Daichuan nodded involuntarily. Although Li Sinian had been emphasizing last night that Liu Xin should not be pushed at will, Fang Daichuan hated Liu Xin so much. Scenes from last night flashed before his eyes. Liu Xin laughed wildly and injected a tube of venom into Li Sinian's ankle.
I don't care if he is a wolf, Fang Daichuan gritted his teeth and thought, let's throw the ball first. Thinking this way, he glanced at Li Sinian.
Li Sinian was playing with the cap of the pen.
He gently pushed the cap of the pen with the middle finger of his right hand, pushed it open and then pressed it, pushed it open and pressed it again, making the pen thump and thump.
When people are thinking, they will subconsciously perform some repetitive actions, such as shaking their legs, rubbing their fingers, or turning a pen. Fang Daichuan glanced at him, and he should be thinking rapidly. The notebook in front of him was spread out, but there was not a single word. Fang Daichuan asked himself that his brain was not as good as his. The notebook spread out in front of him was filled with handwriting that only he could understand.
Li Sinian's pen and paper hadn't been touched, it was always on his seat. When other people listened to everyone's speech, they inevitably wrote down two notes. Some carried notebooks with them, and some wrote and tore up as much as they wanted. Only Li Sinian relied on his own brain to record everyone's every move and speech in his mind. Not a word on the paper.
What is he thinking? Fang Daichuan stared at Li Sinian's long and straight fingers, a little distracted. For some reason, he suddenly recalled the strong fingers that clamped him in the cold sea water.
Fang Daichuan didn't listen to what Du Wei said. He almost stayed up all night, and his physical strength was exhausted in two dives. At this time, what was dangling in front of his eyes was the warm body temperature of the person next to him in the sea, firmly holding the fingers that he would not let go, and a mouthful of water. Come in for help.
It was Li Sinian's turn to speak, and Fang Daichuan quickly recovered from his wandering mind.
The first sentence Li Sinian got up was very capable. He went straight to the point, and said directly: "I am the prophet. I tested Liu Xin last night. Liu Xin is a good person."
One stone stirred up waves, and the girls looked at each other, all looking at him with disbelieving expressions.
Li Sinian said categorically: "Yesterday, I already voted for an old lady wrongly. Good people can't afford to lose. If I vote for another wrong person, I will never be able to vote again. No one should break this vote, trust me, Liu Xin is a good man."