Beginner Scenario: Class Reunion (17)

Lawyer Jin was puzzled. "Then what did Killer C stand to gain? Blowing the whole thing up?"

Zhen Liu shook his head. "No, framing someone else. Killer C was certain that once the body was put out, the police would only find direct evidence against Killer B or Killer A."

Only then did everything make sense. Of course, there could be variations involving other circumstances, but the basic principle remained the same.

Someone had hidden the body, and someone else had deliberately put it back out.

The only thing Zhen Liu could be certain of was that Doctor Zhen had not touched the body. He had been focused on getting a few people to have breakfast with the deceased that morning, creating an alibi for himself.

Lawyer Jin was probably unlikely as well. Since he had used poison, he would definitely avoid being alone with the deceased to prevent any misunderstandings he could not explain.

The person who hid the body was most likely Second-generation Zhao. He was familiar with the entire villa's layout, and Zhen Liu could practically conclude that there was still a secret room in the villa that none of them knew about. As long as they found it and tested it for bloodstains, they would be able to tell whether the deceased had stayed there for some time.

Of course, there was also the reverse possibility: someone had hidden the body in the secret room, only for Second-generation Zhao, who knew the villa well, to discover it and take the body out.

How should he put it? Everyone had really been busy that night.

And miraculously, they had not run into one another...

Zhen Liu: "!!!" Why had they not run into one another? He raised his hand and summoned 333 and DM. "Can I request physical examinations for all of us?"

They had been blinded by a single leaf.

It was not only the deceased who could have been drugged. Zhen Liu now suspected that every one of them had been given sleeping medication.

Then this was not an impulsive act. It had also been premeditated for a long time.

Chapter 17: Beginner Scenario: Class Reunion (17)

The test results came back quickly. Every one of them had sleep-inducing drugs in their system. Not a single person had been spared.

Basketball Qiao was utterly dumbfounded. "Then who drugged us?" Why did everyone have it? If the person who drugged them wanted to use it to conceal himself, what was the point of drugging everyone? So he could sleep along with them?

Zhen Liu could not say that he had been completely unsurprised by the result. Still, he quickly came up with several possibilities. "Either the person who drugged us is among us. As for what he wanted..." Zhen Liu could not be sure for the moment. He could only think that the other party might have been trying to blur the timeline. "Or the deceased did it."

One stone stirred a thousand waves. "!!!"

Still, this guess broadened everyone's thinking and redirected their attention to the deceased. What exactly had Ying De called them here for? He had clearly already succeeded in threatening them, whether truthfully or falsely, so why did he need to confirm it face-to-face again?

Lawyer Jin stated directly, "Doctor Zhen and I painstakingly waited for this meeting because we were waiting for an opportunity to kill. What was Ying De waiting for? Death?"

Everyone must have had a purpose for what they did, and the deceased should have been no exception. He was such a profit-driven petty man; how could he not have had ulterior motives? Unfortunately, the information they had so far was not enough to piece together the deceased's motives.

Zhen Liu said, "Perhaps once we find the real reason the deceased gathered us here, we'll be able to solve the mystery of his death."

Second-generation Zhao shared after Zhen Liu, and he was also the last person in this round of concentrated discussion. At some point, the sky outside the villa had quietly darkened. Once the discussion ended, it would be time for dinner. This day had passed so quickly. Zhen Liu wondered uneasily whether time simply passed this quickly in the game, or whether...

Second-generation Zhao's target of hatred was crystal clear—Lawyer Jin.

It was the kind of hatred that made him want to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Who knew where such deep resentment between Second-generation Zhao and Lawyer Jin had come from? Zhen Liu even felt that after only a short while without speaking, Second-generation Zhao's disgust for Lawyer Jin had risen another level. He was becoming less and less like the player Xiao Zhao whom Zhen Liu had initially known, and more and more like Second-generation Zhao from the script.

The moment Second-generation Zhao began, he expanded on the idea Zhen Liu had not voiced. "I think Lawyer Jin was the one who administered the sleeping medication, to confuse the timeline. Moving the clock forward an hour or back an hour would greatly affect how we determine the fatal wound and who the real killer was." For example, everyone might have believed they killed someone at three o'clock, when it might actually have been four, or perhaps only two. Once time could no longer be trusted, many things became uncertain.

Basketball Qiao suddenly understood, playing along as though he were the straight man. "Right! He pretended to have been drugged with us, but he was actually hiding the fact that he altered the time throughout the entire villa—"

Basketball Qiao wore the excited expression of someone saying, "I've seen this in

Conan

!"

"—and he'd have to drug us again to set the time back!" After saying that, Basketball Qiao looked warily at Lawyer Jin, afraid that the man would pull out a handkerchief and knock him unconscious the next second.

Lawyer Jin nearly rolled his eyes into the sky. "If I wanted to drug you, I would have done it during lunch. Would I have needed to wait until now?"

At lunchtime, they had still maintained a thin veneer of plastic friendship.

For some reason, Zhen Liu felt that perhaps this was why the game insisted on making them cook and eat constantly: to give people a chance to drug them a second time. Then, barring any surprises, they would definitely be knocked out again that night.

Other than that idea, Second-generation Zhao offered no more valuable information. He merely once again proved, comprehensively and from every angle, the inevitable connection between Lawyer Jin and Class A Poison. The evidence was irrefutable. He even submitted the evidence to the previous questionnaire on the spot, using Jin Zhuang's complete loss of the one point from the side quest to prove in reverse that his evidence was genuine.

However, Zhen Liu only wanted to say that no one had disbelieved him. He simply did not think that a connection between Lawyer Jin and Brother Hao proved Lawyer Jin was the killer.

Lawyer Jin's expression remained perfectly calm, because... he had already decided that he would make Second-generation Zhao and Basketball Qiao lose that one point as well!