Newbie Scenario · Class Reunion (14

There were no bars outside Professor Lu's door. The moment he saw Zhen Liu, he happily invited him in. The Black Room even transformed into a sunken reception room.

He moved with such speed and eagerness, like a total simp.

After sitting down, Zhen Liu took the initiative to explain why he had come. "Why are you targeting Lawyer Jin so much?"

Zhen Liu had previously come up with a few possible answers to that question. For example, perhaps Professor Lu really had some private grudge against Jin Zhuang that none of them knew about, or perhaps Professor Lu and Lawyer Jin had some unknown history from their student days.

Yet Zhen Liu had never expected Professor Lu's answer to be a third possibility.

"You pay too much attention to Lawyer Jin."

Professor Lu definitely had no grudge against Jin Zhuang before entering, and Professor Lu's character had no connection with Lawyer Jin's character during their student days. He targeted Lawyer Jin partly because Lawyer Jin was deeply hostile toward him, and partly because Zhen Liu paid too much attention to Lawyer Jin. Since their relationship had already reached this point, he might as well take the opportunity to have a little "snack."

Zhen Liu: "???" Were you always this immersed when playing a character? You could even get jealous?

Professor Lu proved through his actions that he could do more than get jealous. "Of course. If you don't like me acting this way, I can stop."

Zhen Liu: "..."

Professor Lu leaned forward slightly. His classically handsome, oil-painting-like face was filled with temptation as he lowered his voice, like a feather brushing across the tip of one's heart. "As long as you want it, I can make it happen for you."

A love-struck fool was steadily rising.

But Zhen Liu was like a romance-signal jammer. Completely unmoved, he even tried to persuade Professor Lu instead. "There's no need to go that far. I only came to ask whether it might be possible not to hold an Early Referendum."

"Of course. If you don't want one, I'll vote against it." Professor Lu agreed with astonishing ease.

Zhen Liu had prepared a whole heap of arguments, intending to lay out the facts and reason with him, but they were now completely useless. He could only sit there in bewilderment before stalling for a moment. "Oh. That's good, then. In that case, it's fine. I..."

Before Zhen Liu could stand and say goodbye, Professor Lu continued offering things up for free. "Is that all you need me to do?"

"Uh..." Zhen Liu racked his brains and could only come up with one answer. "Play the game properly?"

Professor Lu looked a little wronged. "I've always been fully invested."

Zhen Liu: "..." That much was obvious. You were fully invested in wanting to date, but this really wasn't a dating game!

An ill-timed thought surfaced in Zhen Liu's mind again. If someone wrote a webnovel based on Professor Lu's character, its title would probably be, "Was I Wrong to Expect Romance in a Murder Mystery Game?"

Newbie Scenario · Class Reunion (14

When Zhen Liu came out of Professor Lu's Black Room, he happened to run into Second-generation Zhao in the corridor. He had also come to visit someone.

Second-generation Zhao greeted him first and plainly stated that he wanted to talk to Zhen Liu. "I'm going to make sure Professor Lu agrees to the referendum. Since we ran into each other first, we might as well talk about it now."

Perhaps because he had become too immersed in his role, Second-generation Zhao now seemed far more opinionated than before entering the game, and his attitude had become forceful. Even his somewhat timid appearance had been sharpened by his bearing. Zhen Liu had no issue with whether someone's personality was forceful or not. He simply found it strange that Second-generation Zhao had changed so much.

Second-generation Zhao asked again, "What do you think about an Early Referendum?"

Inwardly, Zhen Liu dismissed the notion that Second-generation Zhao wanted to replace Jin Zhuang as the team's "leader." Even if the tiger was gone and the monkey became king, it would not cause such a drastic change in personality. Out loud, he answered Second-generation Zhao's question. "I don't understand why you're so obsessed with holding an Early Referendum, or rather, why you insist on voting Lawyer Jin to death."

"Because he's the murderer." Second-generation Zhao's tone was resolute, as though there were no personal grudges mixed into it whatsoever.

But Zhen Liu knew he was lying.

"Did Basketball Qiao show you the evidence Lawyer Jin hid?" Second-generation Zhao began trying to indoctrinate Zhen Liu from a moral standpoint. "That night, he and the victim saw a social news story in the living room. Brother Hao's second-in-command had been arrested for drug trafficking."

Lawyer Jin did more than act as Brother Hao's attorney. More accurately, he was the legal counsel for Brother Hao's entire criminal gang.

If this were a crime movie, Lawyer Jin's identity as a mob lawyer would undoubtedly be cool as hell. He could chat and laugh calmly with the police, send his enemies to their doom, and serve as the family's indispensable right-hand man.

But this was reality. In reality, helping others spread their wings at the edge of the law was not cool at all.

Take that second-in-command who crossed the line, for instance. Lawyer Jin had once handled a traffic case for him. He was woken up in the middle of the night and summoned to the second-in-command's home, then had to negotiate with the police on his behalf despite knowing nothing about the situation.

What Lawyer Jin did not know was that someone had died because of that traffic accident.

By the time Lawyer Jin was mired deep in it, he realized he had boarded a pirate ship. The second-in-command said he had not intentionally run the victim over. The victim had failed to follow traffic rules, suddenly darted out from the side and crossed the road. The second-in-command had not expected it and failed to brake in time, which was what caused the accident.

There was only one surveillance camera on that stretch of road, and its footage of the accident happened to be rather blurry.

With great difficulty, Lawyer Jin used insufficient evidence as grounds and tried every possible way to argue that the incident had been a traffic accident. In the end, the second-in-command paid a sum of money, went inside for only a short while, and then got out again.

"But look at that news story. He was accidentally caught while taking drugs, which led to the discovery that he had also been involved in drug trafficking. In other words, he hadn't been taking drugs for just a day or two. He was very likely driving under the influence that day!" Second-generation Zhao grew more and more agitated as he spoke, waving his arms indignantly. Even his expression became slightly twisted. "He drove under the influence and killed someone, then shifted the blame onto the victim!"

And Lawyer Jin had influence everywhere, finding ways to smooth things over with every side for the second-in-command. Whether Lawyer Jin had been willing or not, the outcome was plain for all to see.