By now, the situation was clear. There was obviously something wrong with George Rogers. He had used this so-called banquet as a pretext to lure people here, then plotted to kill them all tonight.
As for his reasons... Li Wei couldn't be bothered. They were always the same old things anyway.
"W-what do we do now?"
Holding the Gas Lamp, the short, stout detective sounded deeply uneasy. Even as detectives, they had never encountered anything this bizarre.
"Hmm, I do have a way to solve our current problem."
Li Wei glanced around before speaking.
"What way?"
"Is it still raining outside?"
"It is. Sounds like it's still coming down pretty hard."
The short, stout detective answered as he listened to the rushing rain outside.
"Then let's do this. Everyone get ready, and we'll leave this place. Then..."
"Then?"
"We'll burn this house to the ground."
Li Wei calmly offered a suggestion that made everyone gasp.
"B-burn it?"
"That's right. Burn it. When the police ask, just tell them a fire broke out by accident and set the house ablaze. Only the few of us escaped, while Mr. George, his wife, and Miss Lawyer perished in the flames. How about it? Simple, right?"
"Well..."
The two detectives wore conflicted expressions at Li Wei's suggestion. They had always been the ones uncovering the truth. Now they were being asked to cover everything up instead, and neither could quite wrap his head around it.
"B-but if we burn down the house... what if those monsters come rushing at us?"
"If that happens, they'll actually be easier to deal with."
Li Wei shrugged.
"You've all seen it. This house takes up three-quarters of the island. Once the whole thing is burning, those monsters will have nowhere to run. They'll have to show themselves in