The surprise came too suddenly, leaving the security officer's face stiff.
Only then did he look at Qin Shang in bewilderment, his face covered in question marks.
"But wasn't that guy the God Slayer?"
"Mr. Yin said Fiercely Licking Cockroach Jade Feet was already dead. How could he complete the main quest? Could I have guessed wrong? Is he a player...?"
The next moment, Qin Shang slowly walked back into the sleeper compartment, his gaze suddenly turning complicated.
"You're the team leader!"
He looked at the Elder Priest.
"You're the assistant!"
He glanced at the security officer.
The identities of these two had given Qin Shang a headache for quite some time.
At first, the security officer, who had always acted like a novice DM, had been Qin Shang's prime suspect.
Qin Shang had repeatedly suspected that the security officer was the team leader.
But if he was the team leader, then when facing the team members' doubts, he most likely wouldn't want morale to collapse.
Yet when Don't Touch Me, I'll Turn Green first questioned him, he hadn't shown any particularly obvious willingness to compromise.
This could only mean one thing: winning people over wasn't important to the security officer.
The teacher's assistant's mission was to help the team leader protect the passengers as much as possible.
Then the team leader's mission was probably related to protecting the passengers as well...
Furthermore, when he and Little Loli had planned to act alone, the Elder Priest had said, "You two had better not regret it."
Qin Shang hadn't realized at the time that the man had been trying to hold them back, but now he understood.
The man had been hiding his abilities all along and pretending to be insignificant.
After all, the one who stuck his head out was the one who got shot. As the team leader, he would naturally be even more wary of the God Slayer's existence.
After all, if the team leader died, the missions of most of the other players would probably fall apart.
This was also why he hadn't been honest about his identity or taken the initiative to reveal it.
Both of these people were clearly veteran players. Perhaps they had some way to confirm each other's identities...
Something like an item!
The God Slayer probably didn't have an inventory.
The character cards had all been reclaimed by the Divine Path. How could the God Slayer use items?
Therefore, Qin Shang could almost be certain that after the three of them split up during the first round,
the security officer and the Elder Priest had perhaps used several clues to verify that they were both players.
The next moment, all three people's gazes fell directly on Little Loli, "Grandpa Niu Cosplaying as a Maid and Seducing Zhuangzhuang's Mom."
Their gazes landed on Little Loli.
The God Slayer's identity was already obvious!
Qin Shang's expression became slightly complicated.
"Little Pink, you really are the God Slayer."
Only at this moment did he become completely certain that Grandpa Niu was the God Slayer.
Upon hearing this, the girl pressed her pink lips together without responding, which amounted to an admission.
Actually, Qin Shang had suspected Little Loli very early on. But while he was exploring Carriages One and Two, the girl hadn't shown any unusual behavior at all.
Qin Shang had nearly overturned his own theory. However, at the beginning of the second round, Heart-to-Heart Sister died right in front of the two of them.
Qin Shang had sensed that something was wrong at that moment.
The order in which everyone had held hands during the first round was...
Fiercely Licking Cockroach Jade Feet (Qin Shang)--Grandpa Niu Cosplaying as a Maid and Seducing Zhuangzhuang's Mom--So Handsome They'll Chop Me--Don't Touch Me, I'll Turn Green--Heart-to-Heart Sister--Buddha Saves the Predestined--Eagle of Justice.
At first, Qin Shang had suspected that the God Slayer and the accomplice might be hidden among the trio of Eagle of Justice.
But clearly, all three players had survived into the second round, which puzzled Qin Shang.
Two traitors among three people was even harder to deal with than "Why Has His Majesty Rebelled?"
The team leader was almost certain to die!
Yet after inheriting Heart-to-Heart Sister's main quest and hint, Qin Shang was surprised to discover that the woman was merely a passenger.
A huge question arose in his mind at that moment.
If the remaining four people were respectively the God Slayer, the accomplice, the team leader, and a passenger,
then he was unquestionably a player who was a passenger, while the Elder Priest had used an item, so he was also a player.
Could it be Eagle of Justice and Grandpa Niu?
The girl had always claimed to be a passenger. Could the team leader and the God Slayer be the same person?
Wasn't that ridiculous?
Besides, at a time like this, the God Slayer and the accomplice should have emerged and started killing people in a two-versus-two situation.
Unless the God Slayer no longer had a teammate...
Based on the order in which everyone had held hands during the first round, Heart-to-Heart Sister and Little Loli had originally been the most suspicious.
Now that Heart-to-Heart Sister had also proven to be innocent, if the accomplice and God Slayer were the security officer and the Elder Priest, it could still make sense.
But the Elder Priest clearly wasn't...
Of the security officer and the Elder Priest, either both were werewolves or neither was.
Otherwise, one of them would have attacked and hurt another player during the first round.
Then they would definitely have been discovered during the first round.
Heart-to-Heart Sister hadn't died during the first round, and the security officer hadn't shouted hysterically, so it wasn't the Elder Priest.
Conversely, if the God Slayer had been the security officer, then the Elder Priest should have noticed him letting go during the first round.
At that moment, the identity of Green Grass by the River... in other words, the accomplice, became obvious.
"So Handsome They'll Chop Me!"
That utterly inconspicuous passerby was the accomplice.
After killing the beautiful woman, he had been killed by Little Loli, who was the God Slayer.
To throw everyone off and make them panic and turn on one another, the God Slayer had indeed been ruthless.
After using the accomplice during the first round, she had decisively abandoned him.
Fortune Teller exclusive hint: During the self-introduction segment, one of the six players lied about his profession. His game ID was "Green Grass by the River."
The delinquent wasn't a martial artist either. He was probably the priest.
Otherwise, how could he have found Don't Touch Me, I'll Turn Green with such pinpoint accuracy in the darkness and killed him in a single blow...?
But Qin Shang still had several questions he couldn't understand. He had spent the most time with Grandpa Niu.
Yet she hadn't attacked him.
At this moment, Qin Shang took a deep breath and asked the biggest question in his heart:
"Why didn't you kill me...?"
Upon hearing this, Little Pink decided to stop struggling. Knowing she couldn't keep up the act, she simply sighed faintly.
"I wanted to kill you during the first round, but what you said made it impossible for me to act."
"You said that if you died, the delinquent must have been the one who attacked you. By the same logic,"
"if I died, then I must have been the one who attacked you."
"And you were so certain that several of them began to waver."
"Once you died, they would definitely suspect me first. During the first round, I originally wanted to kill you and the teacher, making them turn against and suspect one another."
"The accomplice and I would testify for each other, proving that Heart-to-Heart Sister was the murderer and pinning the blame on two of the Elder Priest and the security officer."
"That would make the three of them turn on one another. Then we could continue pretending to be werewolves in the tunnel. At worst, we could split up and act separately..."
"But what you said made it impossible for me to kill you."
"Otherwise, if you died, the two of us—me and the delinquent—would be the first people they suspected."
"But the teacher had to die."
"After the teacher died, it would be difficult for the delinquent to run forward past a corpse and kill Heart-to-Heart Sister, that cross-dressing man, right under the priest's eyes without being seen."
"So I could only kill him. If only one player died during the first round, it would be too easy to identify the suspect."
"We had to weaken your unity. But after the first round ended, I confirmed one thing: you weren't the priest."
"If you had been the priest, you definitely would have seen me attack and kill the delinquent."
Qin Shang narrowed his eyes and shrugged noncommittally.
"You aren't the priest either!"
The only true priest in the entire team was Buddha Saves the Predestined.
As soon as he said this, the girl looked at the young man in confusion.
"When did you figure that out?"
Qin Shang gave her a deep look.
"When we left Carriage One. As I went back and returned to Carriage Two, I wanted you to check the staff duty roster posted ahead."
"But your answer was that you couldn't see it..."
"Heart-to-Heart Sister's hidden hint: NPCs can't lie!"
Thus, in her panic at the time, Little Pink truly hadn't seen the staff roster ahead. She had immediately answered that she couldn't see it...
At these words, the Elder Priest and the security officer exchanged glances.
Then the security officer suddenly raised his voice several notches and exclaimed:
"How do you know Heart-to-Heart Sister's hint?"
"Inheritance! The Fortune Teller's exclusive class skill, Inheritance?"
"Fortune Teller, you're the Fortune Teller hidden among the team!"
The next moment, the security officer roared.
Brother, your reaction time is way too long.
I practically slapped the words "Fortune Teller" right onto my face.
The corner of Qin Shang's mouth twitched.
Seeing that Qin Shang didn't react, the corner of the Elder Priest's mouth twitched as well.
"Wait, something's wrong. Your analysis has a problem. That girl lied. During the profession round, didn't you say she wasn't the priest? Then wasn't she the liar during that round?"
"She must have used some kind of trick to make us think she spoke at the time."
Qin Shang shook his head. He was also uncertain about this point.
Just now, while the two of them had been hiding beneath the bed, Qin Shang had even written a question to her with his finger, and the answer he received was still a denial...
The God Slayer probably couldn't lie. This kind of lie had to be expressed through spoken language.
But as soon as these words came out, the security officer's expression changed drastically.
"Hypnosis? A hypnotist's skill?"
"So during the round when we reported our professions, she used the hypnotist's skill to hypnotize us, making all of us hallucinate and think she had spoken?"
"No wonder you asked me earlier whether the God Slayer could still use skills. You had already suspected that she was the God Slayer?"
Qin Shang's mouth twitched again.
Brother, stop filling in the blanks. When I asked that, I didn't know nearly this much.
Heart-to-Heart Sister hadn't even died then. How was I supposed to know her hidden hint?
I was simply afraid that the God Slayer had other ways to kill players.
However, Qin Shang really hadn't figured out what trick Little Loli had used to fool the Divine Path dungeon and make everyone believe she was the priest.
Logically speaking, "NPCs can't lie" was a hint.
That meant it was a rule.
Unless they had been deceived by some kind of trick. Now that the security officer had put it that way, everything suddenly made sense...
No wonder.
There weren't only the few professions Qin Shang had encountered.
Qin Shang had also seen the hypnotist profession while browsing the forums, but he didn't know much about its skills.
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