The Lie Detector?!
Seeing the little gadget Chen Zhuo took out, Lin Yu was somewhat surprised.
Yet very soon, a thought crossed Lin Yu's mind, and he realized the appearance of this item was actually advantageous to him!
Lin Yu immediately looked at Chen Zhuo and said sharply, "Fine, lie detector it is—I'm not afraid of you—turn it on right now!!"
Chen Zhuo sneered. "Fine, let's see how stubbornly you can talk back in a moment."
Xu Xiumei added from the side, "Don't try any tricks later. This lie detector can only test 'one sentence' per day."
Chen Zhuo paused for a moment and looked at Xu Xiumei. "Teacher Xu, why are you telling him all this?"
Xu Xiumei seemed to just realize she had spoken out of turn and looked somewhat apologetic.
"Oh... sorry, I was afraid he'd quibble and waste this precious opportunity."
"Besides, if he tries to evade the question later, can't it be directly treated as him not daring to accept the lie test?"
Xu Xiumei said earnestly.
Chen Zhuo nodded.
"Alright, Teacher Xu!"
Lin Yu narrowed his eyes.
Sure enough, between these two... Chen Zhuo was quite likely his "human teammate".
Xu Xiumei just now strongly suspected of feeding him lines.
Of course, this didn't matter to Lin Yu.
"I couldn't possibly pull any tricks, just start directly."
Chen Zhuo pressed the button on the side of the lie detector.
"Start!"
He aimed the lie detector at Lin Yu, and the indicator lights on it lit up.
Looking at the lie detector, Lin Yu calmly spoke, "Xia Yue's death has nothing to do with me at all."
"Beep—"
The indicator light on the lie detector turned red, emitting a shrill sound.
Chen Zhuo bounded up in excitement.
"Great! You're lying!"
A look of bewilderment appeared on Lin Yu's face—yet this look of bewilderment was also something he acted out.
After all...
Lin Yu's goal was to make everyone present at this moment think he was the iron wolf!
The only one who would likely vote for him because of this was probably just Chen Zhuo.
Moreover, next...
To all the wolves, he was essentially the person who most looked like their "teammate".
Therefore, Lin Yu chose to have a showdown with Xia Yue on the stairs not only because the terrain of the stairs made it convenient for him to counter-kill the weapon-wielding Xia Yue.
Another important reason was that the stairs extended in all directions, making it very easy for someone to see the body—thus increasing suspicion on Lin Yu.
As for why he made it so obvious...
Lin Yu looked over at Bao Liu and Yao Zhengye's group.
Yu Longguo and Xu Xiumei were easy to set aside; they definitely recognized him as a wolf teammate.
However, Bao Liu and Yao Zhengye very likely had already mutually recognized each other's werewolf identities on the first day!
Therefore, Lin Yu had to act extremely obviously so that these two would doubt their previous judgment and believe he was that werewolf.
Sure enough, Bao Liu now wore an expression of "I am thinking", while Yao Zhengye was glancing sideways at Bao Liu from time to time with an incredulous look.
Of course...
Even with all this, Lin Yu still had to struggle a bit.
What if the other "werewolves" felt he was beyond saving and directly cast their votes against him?
Although it was an anonymous vote, they would likely avoid voting against him if they could—after all, there were only two werewolves on the field. Even if Lin Yu was voted out, if one person abstained, it would be very easy to muddy the waters and stubbornly claim "I voted for him".
But regardless, sophistry was still required.
Facing the lie detector flashing with red light, Lin Yu began his near-quibbling "defense".
"What, just because you say I'm lying means I'm lying? Who's to say the red light on this thing doesn't mean the truth!"
"Besides, you call this thing a lie detector, but I insist it's a gramophone, or maybe even a nail clipper!"
"Most importantly, taking a step back, so what if what I just said was a 'lie'? I said 'Xia Yue's death has nothing to do with me'... Is it possible that her death actually had something to do with me?"
"After all, it was because I got separated from her that she ended up being killed by you!"
Lin Yu said in a torrent of words.
Hearing this, Chen Zhuo sneered repeatedly.
"Such pale and feeble defenses. Do you see anyone believing you?"
"I request a vote!"
Chen Zhuo shouted.
In front of everyone, a ball of flame suddenly ignited.
Then, a piece of white paper and a quill dropped from the flames.
Blood-red characters surfaced on the white paper.
"Write down the name of the person you wish to banish!"
Picking up the pen, Chen Zhuo immediately began to write furiously.
Lin Yu also wrote "Chen Zhuo" on the paper.
Subsequently, the voting phase concluded—
"Swish!"
Flames appeared once more, swallowing up the paper and pens.
This time, however, everyone had grown somewhat accustomed to this startling game and was not frightened.
Then, the blood characters on the wall emerged.
"The voting results for this round are—"
"Lin Yu's vote count: 1"
"Chen Zhuo's vote count: 1"
"Votes are tied, and no one's vote count exceeds half of the surviving population, so no one is banished."
The blood characters slowly faded away.
Chen Zhuo was dumbfounded. "Are you kidding me, guys, you..."
Before Chen Zhuo could even speak, Lin Yu loudly interrupted them instead, "What are you guys doing, why aren't you voting for this otaku! He's stepping on me, the 'detective'—I'm the highest-identity person here! Damn it, I'm done! Do you guys even know how to play, why aren't you following my vote?!"
Chen Zhuo was dumbfounded, looking at Lin Yu with his mouth open.
He desperately wanted to ask...
How come you said all my lines?!
What are you panicking for, you werewolf?!
Yet the others, blasted by Lin Yu's fierce rant and recalling the "vote counts" from just now, all wore somewhat surprised expressions.
Clearly, the fact that Lin Yu was not eliminated... seemed rather unbelievable to them as well.
Still, observing the remaining four, they didn't seem too hung up on the matter.
Seeming to carry the mindset of "not being eliminated is a good thing anyway", they had all already begun to rest.
Only Chen Zhuo, full of grievance, found a sofa in the corner and began to snore away.
Just like that...
Time arrived at the second day!
Daylight broke once more, and Lin Yu climbed up from the sofa.
Though he had killed someone, he had slept unprecedentedly well last night.
It was time for task assignment again.
Yu Longguo stood before the schedule and glanced at Lin Yu.
"Your 'partner' is already dead... Regardless of whether you're the killer or not, how do you plan to act next?"
"Of course I'm grouping with you, big brother soldier, you have to keep a close eye on this werewolf!"
Chen Zhuo quickly spoke up first.
Lin Yu unhurriedly spoke, "Yet I feel it's better for me to walk alone... If I really am a werewolf, aren't you making a joke of Brother Yu's life?"
Chen Zhuo said somewhat anxiously, "But Brother Yu has a soldier's abilities, his physical fitness is five times that of an ordinary person..."
"Stop trying to look magnanimous at others' expense! Otaku, do you know that werewolves might have sharp weapons? Even if his physical fitness is five times greater, you shouldn't put a soldier in danger!"
Lin Yu said sharply.
Struck speechless by Lin Yu attacking him from the moral high ground, Chen Zhuo turned red in the face and failed to utter a retort for a long time.
Xu Xiumei hurriedly pulled on Chen Zhuo as well.
"Alright, stop arguing with him."
Yu Longguo also gave Lin Yu a meaningful look and spoke steadily, "Fine, we'll do as you say!"
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