Compared to my hesitation, Wu Ling and the others accepted Chen Xiaoqiu's plan easily.
Gu Mo even praised her. "At least one of you has a clear head."
I didn't know how to respond.
Wu Ling pondered. "It sounds like a good idea, but there are still plenty of problems when it comes to carrying it out. The biggest issue is that we don't have much time."
"If we need more time, we don't necessarily have to do it tomorrow," I said.
If I could avoid using my younger sister, I certainly didn't want to.
I wanted tomorrow to be a simple, happy day when I sent my sister off to college.
I also felt ashamed of the thought I'd had earlier.
Wu Ling shook her head. "If we're going to do this, the sooner the better. There were six of them at first. Now there's only one left."
I stared blankly for a moment before I understood what Wu Ling meant. That made me feel even more ashamed.
I'd even forgotten the purpose of this plan. Chen Xiaoqiu wanted to test the Thin Man's ability, so I'd gone along with that idea. But in reality, if the plan succeeded, shouldn't the greatest reward be that the other three people implicated by Chu Lan could be spared? And how long had it even been? Six people, and now only one was still alive?
My expression must have looked awful.
"There really is only one left," Wu Ling said. "Things are even worse than I expected."
Then Wu Ling gave me a detailed account of what had happened over the past day or so.
After Sun Jiayue died in an accident, Tang Zhuoxi died in a car crash, and Wang Mingli died suddenly, the fourth and fifth victims soon appeared as