Newbie Scenario: Class Reunion (Eleven

Zhen Liu neither confirmed nor denied it. 333 had already reminded him that this game did not require telling the truth. Only when irrefutable direct evidence was presented did one need to explain or clarify.

Lawyer Jin did not keep pressing the issue. After pointing out Doctor Zhen's possible weakness, he fixed his gaze on the person he disliked most: Professor Lu.

"Our Professor Lu's secret is quite something." Lawyer Jin had always been trying to regain face from Professor Lu. Although he had never succeeded so far, he was brimming with confidence this time. He had absolute proof against Professor Lu. "Professor Lu is gay."

Although Professor Lu had deliberately tidied up his room before they searched for evidence, Lawyer Jin still found it.

Tucked inside Professor Lu's wallet was a candid photo of Doctor Zhen from his student days. A fresh-faced youth with a promising future—he had merely stood there, yet it seemed as though he had brightened the entire classroom.

"Professor Lu likes Doctor Zhen." After saying that, Lawyer Jin waited for everyone's shocked expressions.

But...

Everyone's reaction was basically, "That's it?"

Even Basketball Qiao, the biggest idiot of them all, said, "Isn't that obvious? Ever since Doctor Zhen showed up, when has Professor Lu's gaze ever left him?"

Lawyer Jin: "..." I was careless.

Newbie Scenario: Class Reunion (Eleven

Lawyer Jin had, more or less, said a whole lot of nothing. He could only hastily skip over the murder motive and begin sharing his other discoveries.

[Pretending nothing happened 23333]

[The whole world knows they're "dating" hahahahaha]

[Love is forever the GOAT!]

[I don't think Lawyer Jin is the murderer. A murderer can't be this lacking in style!]

[Sigh, this batch of veteran players is no good.]

The clues Lawyer Jin produced included, but were not limited to: bloodstains on a golf club in the recreation room, a flowerpot in the villa's courtyard that showed signs of having been disturbed, and that painfully tacky red banner.

"This banner was not made by the victim."

Lawyer Jin found the receipt for the banner on the table in the living room. It listed not only the purchase time and amount, but also the phone number of the shop that had made it. When he called, the shop owner still remembered something about the buyer because they had received only that one order that day. While the owner could not say which of the five of them had bought it, he could at least confirm that the description did not match the victim's personality or physical features.

Before Lawyer Jin entered the villa, Zhen Liu had been the only one among the five suspects to arrive.

Zhen Liu produced the chat log between himself and the victim from before he set out, including a photo of his trunk. "I drove here. Before coming, I specifically confirmed with the victim what he needed me to bring." The items in the trunk had been neatly sorted and organized: the red wine the victim had drunk before his death, some decorations, and Doctor Zhen's own luggage.

Lawyer Jin nodded. "In other words, someone had already arrived at the villa and hung the banner before Doctor Zhen got there. Combined with what I said earlier, I truly suspect that while we were all downstairs, someone hid upstairs."

With the other party's movements being so suspicious, it was hard not to think that person was the murderer.

Lawyer Jin looked at Basketball Qiao. "And we all already know that Basketball Qiao is a regular resident of this villa. You were in the villa until you went to buy milk tea, weren't you? Did you meet the victim?"

"Whether I met him or not, Ying De wasn't dead at the time." Basketball Qiao was somewhat vague about the timeline he had previously described. "Aren't we trying to find out who killed Ying De? Why do you care where I was then? But I can honestly tell you that I was outside the whole time. I only arrived at the villa after buying milk tea that day. I just have no way to prove it."

Unlike Doctor Zhen, Basketball Qiao was not someone so meticulous in his work. He had no habit of planning ahead, so naturally he had not left behind any photos to prove it. He had even thrown away the shopping receipt.

Second-generation Zhao stepped in for Basketball Qiao again. "What about your payment records?" In the age of electronic payments, receipts and the like had long since become outdated.

Basketball Qiao suddenly understood. "Oh, right, right, right." He hurriedly took out his phone and cast its screen onto the light screen. His lock screen was a photo of his mother—another "old man" who used a family photo as his wallpaper. Opening his e-wallet, he showed the precise payment time for the milk tea. Not only that, there was also a record of Basketball Qiao taking a number and waiting in line.

The milk tea Basketball Qiao bought was from a very popular shop in the city, where the queue numbers could easily exceed a hundred. This indirectly proved that Basketball Qiao had remained downtown at the time. Whatever he had been doing, he should not have had time to lie in wait at the villa.

Second-generation Zhao and Professor Lu became the only two remaining suspects. Yet it was clear that without evidence, neither of them would say a word.

Second-generation Zhao would only say, "Brother Jin, you know me."

Professor Lu only gave a disdainful smile.

After Lawyer Jin, it was Professor Lu's turn to share clues. Unlike Lawyer Jin, he was not so theatrical. He neither stood up nor walked over to the light screen. He simply sat casually in his chair, took out some photographs, and spread them across the table.

One should return courtesy with courtesy. To show his "respect" for Lawyer Jin, Professor Lu addressed him first. "You only found Doctor Zhen's old photo in my wallet? Surely not. Surely not. Is this the strength of a veteran player?"

Professor Lu was truly a master of sarcastic snark.

Lawyer Jin had not expected that, even after the matter had passed, he would still be dragged out and whipped over it.

"So that you won't waste your effort on such meaningless matters later and fail to focus on solving the case, I can tell you directly." Professor Lu hammered the nail into his own coffin, taking out a letter he had kept in his car. "There are four cars parked in the garage: mine, Doctor Zhen's, Lawyer Jin's, and the victim's. If any of you searched the garage, you should have found the letter anonymously reporting me to the school."