Red Maple Leaf Boarding School (24): "I'm Just Someone Who Hates Trouble"
On April 1, Jin Yusheng organized a session with Qi Si and a woman calling herself "Ning Xu," and the three played a round of murder mystery in a teahouse.
There were rarely three-player offline murder mystery scenarios, so the three naturally chose an online one and randomly selected a scenario called Three-Day Manor from a rudimentary app.
Other than coin flips and dice rolls, there was rarely any true randomness in the world. Most seemingly casual decisions were influenced by psychological suggestion, environment, circumstances, and countless other factors from the moment they occurred, making them open to guidance and prediction.
There were only a limited number of three-player scenarios, and even fewer with exactly two male roles and one female role. Their ratings were also wildly polarized. After filtering through layer upon layer of options, the three of them coincidentally made the same choice.
Qi Si knew the twists and turns behind it all, so he had long anticipated that Ning Xu would "open her heavenly eye" and learn the scenario's details beforehand.
This had never been a simple game. It was merely that certain official organizations had noticed him and wanted to approach him in a relatively peaceful manner to assess how dangerous he was.
Everyone knew what was going on, yet no one said it aloud. After all, some things became troublesome when laid bare—and Qi Si happened to be someone who hated trouble.
Three-Day Manor was quite an interesting scenario.
The three Players and an NPC harbored grudges against one another. By a twist of fate, they were trapped together in a manor and, during the night, viciously murdered their respective enemies.
Whenever someone died, time in the manor reset, and the deceased lost