Lin Yu's strategy had indeed been just as Xia Yue said—find the person who looked most suspicious and immediately use his ability on them.
But at this moment, after the two chance encounters during the day and hearing everyone's statements at the meeting just now...
Lin Yu felt that everyone was suspicious!
Yao Zhengye and Bao Liu had furtively banded together, and they seemed to be looking for people everywhere!
Chen Zhuo's attitude toward him had suddenly changed, and he had no idea what Xu Xiumei had said to him.
Then there was the "soldier" Yu Longguo, who had gone off on his own.
From the moment he suggested "pairing up" during the group assignment today and urgently pushed everyone into pairs, that guy had already seemed especially suspicious in Lin Yu's eyes.
Especially since the final group could clearly have acted together as three people, yet he had insisted on going alone...
What was he trying to do?!
Lin Yu did not even trust Xia Yue, who had acted with him all day!
Afterward, when they went to the first floor to handle the task, Lin Yu had made an estimate...
The storeroom was simply too close. No matter how much they had delayed and dawdled, they could not possibly have been gone for that long!
What was more, even if they really had "failed to find anything"... would searching around have tired Xia Yue out that badly?
Everyone was suspicious!
Lin Yu felt that his thoughts had become a tangled mess.
"Forget it. I can't just leave my ability unused."
Thinking this, Lin Yu decided to randomly find someone and use his ability on them first.
"Bao Liu, then!"
Lin Yu thought it over, then activated his ability. After obtaining the detective's ability, he seemed to instinctively know how to use it.
Lin Yu silently repeated Bao Liu's name in his mind while picturing Bao Liu's appearance.
Immediately afterward, he experienced a wondrous sensation, as if the soul of a person named "Bao Liu" had been placed right before him.
With just a thought, he could peek into the secrets the other person had hidden away... Whether they were related to this game or Bao Liu's other secrets, he could learn them with ease.
"I want to know Bao Liu's identity in this game."
With a thought from Lin Yu, a scene from a memory surfaced before his eyes!
The scene was from Bao Liu's first-person perspective.
He furtively used a sheet of letter paper to cover his identity card and carefully checked it.
The words written on the identity card were...
"Your identity is: Werewolf."
Then the scene faded away.
Lin Yu was somewhat stunned.
Bao Liu really was a werewolf... If that was the case, did that mean he and Yao Zhengye were very likely a pair of werewolves?
"Hey, Detective, who did you investigate? Hurry up and tell us the result!"
Bao Liu's urging voice rang out at that moment.
Lin Yu raised his head and looked at everyone around him before opening his mouth.
The best strategy now was undoubtedly to directly tell everyone that "Bao Liu is a werewolf," then vote Bao Liu out together.
But...
Was it really that simple?
Lin Yu exhaled and made up his mind.
"I used my ability to ascertain someone's identity, but... sorry, everyone. I can't reveal the result of my investigation right now."
The moment Lin Yu said this, everyone present showed subtle changes in expression.
Chen Zhuo, the Otaku with the least composure, naturally grew anxious at once. "Come on, bro, if you investigated someone, just say it! What do you mean, you can't? Why are you being all mysterious? Trying to be a riddle-teller or something?"
Lin Yu did not answer. He merely glanced calmly at Chen Zhuo.
After Chen Zhuo finished, Yu Longguo also joined in with an unhappy expression. "Detective, what do you mean? Whether you found a werewolf or a human, revealing it would be the best choice, wouldn't it?"
Bao Liu also spoke with a gloomy expression, though he did not echo Chen Zhuo or Yu Longguo.
"You investigated someone and still keep hemming and hawing, hiding the result like that. You really don't seem like a good person—and you, you dead Otaku, fuck your bloody horse, you're the one who started this whole riddle-teller crap. You can barely explain your ability, and now you're giving the Detective an excuse to keep holding it in and talking shit."
"And you, Soldier, you came back after going solo all day and started showing off. I fucking hate people who show off. Damn it!"
Bao Liu launched an indiscriminate tirade, cursing all three of them.
Only after Bao Liu finished cursing did Lin Yu speak leisurely.
"Do you really think it benefits us if I reveal everything I find?"
"Think carefully, idiots. What if I found that the person's identity was human?"
Relying on his arrogant detective persona, Lin Yu attacked them right back, targeting everyone indiscriminately.
After hearing this, Xia Yue froze for a moment, then remembered what Lin Yu had said during the day—that the werewolves did not know one another's identities.
Xia Yue suddenly understood. "That's true. If the person investigated is human... then revealing it might not offer much benefit!"
Chen Zhuo was somewhat confused. "How could that be? That's basically giving us a confirmed good-person result and helping us eliminate one 'wrong option.' How could that be useless?"
Xia Yue patiently explained on Lin Yu's behalf. "But this game is very different from an ordinary game of 'Werewolf.' You might not have noticed—the werewolves don't know who their teammates are."
Chen Zhuo froze. "So what?"
Lin Yu leaned back slightly and spoke in a languid tone. "Could there be a reason the werewolves didn't kill anyone on the first night? Could it be that they were afraid of killing one of their own teammates?"
After Lin Yu said this, Chen Zhuo finally understood as well.
"I see! In this game, not only do the good side have limited information... the werewolves do too!"
"So, Detective, you're not saying anything because you're afraid of giving the werewolves a safe target to 'kill,' while also narrowing down the range in which they can find their teammates, right?"
Lin Yu chuckled softly. "You're not completely beyond saving, at least."
"Then what should we do today?"
Xu Xiumei asked with a frown.
"My suggestion is that we nominate no one," Lin Yu naturally began guiding everyone again. "The day was peaceful, and the night will be peaceful as well. We'll wait for tomorrow's investigation result before deciding. How about it?"
As Lin Yu spoke, the meeting room fell silent once more.
Yu Longguo spoke coldly. "What if the person you investigate tomorrow is human again?"
"If I investigate a human, I'll reveal that as well. Among the remaining five humans, two are werewolves, so it should be easy enough to analyze. Besides, if you believe my investigation results, that's equivalent to assuming I'm a good person, isn't it?" Lin Yu said casually. "Besides, maybe I'll investigate a werewolf tomorrow."
He smiled as he said this, sounding somewhat optimistic.
Xu Xiumei, however, poured cold water on him. "There's a two-out-of-five chance. It isn't low, but it's still more likely that you'll find a human."
Lin Yu merely shrugged.
Theoretically, his chance of finding a werewolf today had been only one in three, yet hadn't he immediately caught Bao Liu?
But when he thought of this, Lin Yu suddenly realized something.
"Wait. Was this really because of... luck?"
That sort of intangible thing was precisely what Lin Yu believed in the least!
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