Another piece of evidence that made Schiller think his deduction was correct was that the Wanderer had never attacked head-on.
If making a corpse stand up and wave its limbs around counted as attacking, then that monster was not capable of killing three people in a row. Besides, the corpse had not done much waving around anyway. No one had been hurt at all.
So how exactly had the three victims in the Wooden House died? That was worth investigating.
At that moment, Schiller thought of something. They had seemed to see one another at the same time, but had they really arrived at the same time?
Was it possible that someone had actually arrived at the Wooden House before the others and done something, then pretended they had only just arrived when everyone else showed up?
The key question was whether they truly arrived the way they did in a game, appearing out of thin air with a flash, or whether, like in a cutscene, the system controlled them and made them walk into a certain place.
If it was the latter, then whoever arrived first had been given plenty of time to prepare. Everything he saw when he opened his eyes could have been arranged in advance by someone else.
Too many thoughts swirled through Schiller's mind. He searched every event he had experienced for suspicious details. Every single thing seemed riddled with doubts, yet he could not grasp any particularly compelling evidence.
Schiller turned back to motives.
If this really was just an utterly ordinary little village, then whether the people here were dead or alive probably did not matter to anyone. When some people crafted their backstories, they would surely give this village something extraordinary in order to make their motives more plausible.
For example, it