Who Is the Mole?

As the Countdown ended, the little boy ran out of the room crying.

If it weren't for the constraints of the mission, he would have wanted to run away long ago...

They were all teleported away, and the scenery changed before their eyes. A moment later, they arrived at a white room.

"Wow, I didn't expect the First Checkpoint to go so smoothly!" Zheng Ji stretched and laughed, "Thanks to Night Brother, it's really different to have a big shot carrying you!"

"Truly remarkable!" Du Jincai looked at Luo Jun with admiration and said, "I can see clearly that your speed and strength are both top-notch. You must be Martial Combat Faction, right?"

"I'm more curious about how you withstood the little boy's skill." Cui Zheng Hai was Insight Faction, with a stronger observational ability than others. "I could feel that his ability hit you, but you didn't seem to be affected at all."

Everyone else also looked at Luo Jun.

"Um... I have a Noble Phantasm that can negate skill effects." Luo Jun could only make up a lie.

"Wow, what kind of Noble Phantasm is this powerful!" Elisa exclaimed curiously. "That skill can be used once a minute, and you managed to withstand it. It must be at least Legendary Treasure Item, right?"

"At least we can rule out Elisa," Du Jincai said. "She's blonde."

Cui Zheng Hai shook his head. "Not necessarily." As he spoke, he picked up the hair and examined it carefully. "Although all the men except me have short hair, none of them have hair this short. Moreover, this hair has no ends or roots, so it has obviously been cut. In other words, any one of us could be the owner of this hair."

Then, the ground rose up to form a ballot box, with a small blue box on top of it containing clues about the mole.

Luo Jun glanced furtively at the others' pictures and noticed that his own image was a Blur image of Midnight Mask. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now you can exercise your voting rights and choose the contestant you think is most likely the mole. The contestant with the most votes will be locked in a cage and will be unable to participate in the subsequent levels."

"Is this the mole's hair?" Elisa exclaimed in surprise, then looked at the five men. "Such short hair, it's a man's!"

Suddenly, the room changed.

Thank you, Brother Cui! I couldn't have come up with such a reasonable explanation myself!

Luo Jun was grateful, but outwardly he only gave a curt "hmm," maintaining a rather aloof attitude.

"Does anyone have the ability or equipment for DNA testing?" Du Jincai looked at everyone. "Let's lock onto the target."

"I can try," Zhu Sanyang said, raising his hand. "Each of you give me another hair, and I'll taste and compare them to see whose hair it is."

Everyone was stunned upon hearing this, never expecting that this seemingly ordinary young man possessed such amazing abilities.

"So, the mole is one of the six of us?" Zheng Ji looked at the others, his expression wary.

"Not necessarily," Cui Zheng Hai analyzed. "Perhaps it's a limited-use technique. The little boy tried it three times without success, and then he stopped using it on Ye."

"By successfully completing this challenge, the amusement park will provide a clue about the mole."

"Voting is limited to ten minutes. Failure to vote within the time limit will be considered a forfeit. If everyone forfeits, no one will be put in the cage this time."

Du Jincai stepped forward, opened the box, and found a small tuft of short black hair inside, very short, only about three or four centimeters long.

"Congratulations everyone, you've passed the first hurdle and obtained a Treasure Vault Key."

"The keys will be distributed after all three levels are completed."

First, three cages rose from the ground, and then words appeared on the walls.

The prompt ended, and each person now had six photos in their hands, each containing the headshots of the other six people besides themselves.

As the only Westerner present, this international student was immediately ruled out as a suspect.

"Here you go." Lao Miao Miao was the first to pluck a strand of hair and hand it over, and the others followed suit. As for the hair that served as a clue, she didn't give it all to Zhu Sanyang, but only took a few strands so that he could taste it.

After memorizing the clue of the smell of the hair, he tasted the hair of each of the six people one by one, let out a burp, and then shook his head. "None of them are right..."

"How could that be?" Zheng Ji said, dissatisfied. "Could it be your hair? You're deliberately saying there's no match to mislead us!"

Zhu Sanyang glanced at him. "If it's mine, there's no reason for me to step forward. This approach will only increase suspicion on me, you idiot!"

"Who are you calling an idiot!" Zheng Ji roared, "You glutton who only knows how to burp!"

"Fool, you'd better not mess with me." Zhu Sanyang rubbed his stomach. "I'm starving!"

"What, you want to eat me? I'm not afraid of you, come on, try me!"

"Stop arguing!" Du Jincai stopped the two of them. "Zhu Sanyang is right, but there's another possibility now."

As he spoke, he looked at Elisa.

"Even though the color is wrong, let's at least try it."

Elisa readily provided a strand of hair, but after tasting it, Zhu Sanyang shook his head. "Not really."

Everyone was stunned.

"It seems that the hair is just a metaphor, not actually plucked from someone's head," Cui Zheng Hai analyzed. "Based on the current intelligence, it can be understood as someone with black hair."

The focus has returned to the six people of Zhendan.

But who could it be?

"I think it's this older sister!" Zheng Ji frowned. "She's the only one who got caught. Didn't they say the mole didn't want us to get through?"

"Please call me Miao Miao." Lao Miao Miao rolled her eyes at him. "In that situation, you wouldn't have been able to avoid it either!"

"I don't think it was Miao Miao," Cui Zheng Hai shook his head. "When Zhu Sanyang wanted to taste the hair, she was the first to cooperate. The real mole would have hesitated for fear of being exposed..."

"Maybe it's nighttime," Elisa said. "He's wearing a mask, so no one can see his expression, making it difficult to confirm his identity."

The others looked at her like she was an idiot. "Ye was the first one eliminated, right? Look how hard he worked on the little boy, he didn't seem like he didn't want to pass the level..."

With the ten-minute time limit dwindling and no conclusion reached, everyone fiddled with the photos in their hands, sometimes taking one out, sometimes switching to another... hesitant and indecisive.

"I have a suggestion." With time running out, Luo Jun suddenly said, "Since we can't confirm it, let's all forfeit this round."

"Give up?" Everyone looked at Ye in surprise.

Luo Jun analyzed, "To be honest, based on just a few strands of hair, no one can be 100% sure of being a suspect. If we vote randomly, we'll most likely end up locking up one of our own. Then in the next round, there will only be five humans left to deal with one mole, which will be more advantageous for the mole."

"If we don't vote, the next round will still be six humans against one mole. We can continue to observe. If we win, we'll get another clue, and it won't be too late to vote then."

The group agreed that what he said made sense, exchanged glances, and reached a consensus. "Okay, then we'll all forfeit this round."

Luo Jun nodded, but he was holding five photos in his hand.

Aside from Elisa, who seemed to have the least connection to the clues, he held the photos of the other five people in his hands, with his back to himself.

Luo Jun plans to activate the Dice of Heavenly Secrets at the very last moment of the Countdown, and the result will be to roll out the traitor!

If the dice tell him that this is Mandatory Event, then it means the mole is not among these five people, directly locating Elisa.

If the dice roll, then the traitor is among these five people! The probability of being randomly selected is 20%, and with his 15-point Intermediate Point Correction and Level Seven Luck, the probability of being selected is roughly 40%!

Of course, just to be on the safe side, Luo Jun secretly used his last five hundred chips to exchange for a prop.

Name: One More Shot

Grade: Excellent

Effect: Consumable item, can be replaced with any previously used Fine-level consumable item.

Available uses: 1/1

Note: Let me look in the trash can...

With this thing, Luo Jun only needs to exchange for a Lead-Weighted Dice or Misprinted Dice to greatly increase his success rate, and he may very well be able to directly identify the mole!

In that case, if everyone else gives up, Luo Jun only needs to throw the mole's photo into the ballot box, and that single vote will be enough to lock the mole up.

Moreover, events that affect whether the Main Quest can be completed should have a high Severity Coefficient, and with a difficulty rating of 80, that should be enough to level up!

Of course, explaining my motives to others afterwards will be a bit troublesome, but as long as I succeed, the mission is half accomplished, so it's still worth it!

Thinking of this, Luo Jun clutched the few photos in his hand.

Finally, as the Countdown was about to end, everyone else had put down their photos. Just at the last second, Luo Jun, holding the photo, activated the Dice of Heavenly Secrets!

"Expose the mole!"

"Ding! The cause of this incident is unclear and cannot be determined!"

What?!

(End of this chapter)